The "brilliant lady" was not exactly a blameless, passive party to this crazy mess. She was very much in charge during the sowing of a lot of the seeds that grew into the festering compost pile of season 7. Whether she knew things were headed for a blowup or just wanted to be able to take (figurative) hostages during negotiations for a new deal, she betrayed a LOT of her own storytelling long before Warner Bros started playing hardball.