That's the thing, this sort of information going out into the public (true or not) is going to hurt the locker room badly.
Worse still is the "online AEW defence force" (some AEW fans are unbelievably toxic and feel that they HAVE to defend the company's honor) are very quick to jump in and take sides in this issue when we don't really know what the truth is.
EDIT: I am NOT defending Punk here, just that we really don't know exactly what is happening in AEW.