F1’s credibility as a competitive sport hangs on what they do next. They can’t (and shouldn’t) overturn the outcome, just as the outcome of a football match isn’t changed because of a catastrophically bad referees decision.
If they take on board what happened and make changes to the way the race director operates and come up with a way to make stewards decisions consistent on a race to race basis, as well as making their own racing regulations less open to interpretation then fair enough, but if they want to leave it so that the result or the ending can be deliberately stage managed by the officials then it’s no longer sport - it’s just a Netflix entertainment show.
Sport isn’t always entertaining. Some events are really boring across all sports - that’s the nature of competitive sport and as a sports fan I accept this, and all I want is to know that that the event is fair, unbiased and not being manipulated.
I don’t believe the result was deliberately fixed in Max’s favour, I believe it was fixed so that they could get a last lap shoot out which is what the organisers, TV companies, sponsors etc really wanted to see. It wasn’t a sporting event in the end.