Theres some things in this that I don't quite agree with but the biggest are

This seems like a reframing of the narrative to imply that Gio intentionally stirred the pot to cause problems for no reason... Gio looked into what happened to the Hiveswap funds relying on publicly available information, statements from employees, and official Patreon posts. Homestuck, as an entity, has never been transparent with fans. Had they been, Gio wouldn’t have dug through all that, but HS fans had been waiting for years and donated thousands of dollars so the lack of communication created a need to investigate. I do not believe he's just a rogue bad faith actor who, despite clearly putting in a ton of effort into preserving HS when nobody else did, just wants to tear down WP and Andrew and the team.

To just say “Gio refused to sign a license” while correct, is misleading, as it omits key information. Gio stated that he wasn’t allowed to read the license before signing it, which makes it totally understandable to not want to sign. The way you explain it sounds more like "He didn't do exactly what we wanted him to do so it's his fault" which isn’t a fair representation of the situation. This whole thing could have been really simple, you didn't have to offer weird shady legal contracts that he couldn't read for this to work out (if we're to take what he said at face value, which has not been disproven). Could've been a very straight forward "don't tell anyone about this until it's ready, don't resell it, maintain it and keep it updated, if Andrew wants to make some new additions add them, and we'll pay you for working on it". Gio’s concerns are valid, and he clearly wanted to find a way to make this work.

UHC wasn’t about controlling the work and was not profiting directly from providing access to the comic, Homestuck has always been free to read online. It was just a fan-driven project aiming to provide access to and help keep Homestuck alive when official sources were failing to maintain it. Andrew as IP holder still has the legal right to strike UHC down of course, HS is his property, but there was literally no reason to and just because you have a legal right to do something doesn't mean you aren't a bit of a jerk for doing it.