Could just be that the "hoorah, we're all safe and sound now there's going to be an independent league" conversations were a tad premature.
It was easy to make friends and allies when everyone basically shared the same goal of bringing down the FFA a peg or two.
Once the attention turns to where to from there, there was always going to be a mess of competing agendas to implement, and interests to protect, and sorting the way through that was never going to be easy. Quite frankly, you'd have to have been naive as fudge to not see this coming.