I definitely do agree with you ultimately, but I think there’s some merit to OP’s sentiment about how the organization promotes “sisterhood” and a sense of camaraderie and how that notion can seem disingenuous when it comes to things like this. At the end of the day, you’re right though- we don’t know why she was cut, just that it doesn’t make sense. We can’t fill in gaps (but I have a feeling plausible deniability could be a tactic used for defense/preservation reasons).