I do think PPP felt a little more burned than the casino would like to admit about DSP. My read on the arc was that they were like /v/ or the average DSP subforum tourist who posts the nth "I don't get what's so bad about Phil". Whenever they look at old clips or the moments of recent toxicity when DSP can muster out a holler and cut promos, they keep asking "where was this Phil during the KC arc?" so I genuinely believe that the casino thought all he needed was a push and some backup to become their pet retard/raving hollering attack dog. I don't think Phil is some macchiavellian cunning mastermind, but by nature he is a leech and a parasite that only cares about what you could do for him. Friendship for him is people sucking his cock and being available for all his needs, and when people get annoyed with that, he considers it a betrayal, see Rambo and Howard. He looked like an autistic gay retard when he did the king snake stream, but KC did not exactly walk away unscathed.
What they don't get (understandably so) is it's easy to underestimate how much Phil's whole deal now is laziness and autism. He's perfectly content being a smug hermit who will condescend and talk shit at his viewers, other lolcows, or successful streamers and get paid for it. There is no more 'King of Hate' to resurrect. Sure he'll occasionally yell about the lolcows in his sphere like wings, RTU or LTG, but they will never get back the ''''''entertaining'''''' mean drunk hollering pig that was early Youtube DSP. I also think that's what's riling them up even further, they've gone into the detractor phase of wanting Phil to suffer some huge comeuppance for being the smuggest asshole in the world, but he's the internet cockroach for a reason.