There are 2 options from this point:
There is a 3rd option "We, the viewers, suffer", but that one is inevitable lol
Either way looks like this will be the final arc, there is no going forward from this after it is resolved. The plot is ruined, even if we switch FMCs there will be no point. She wrote herself into a corner and she is to dumb to fix that...
The lack of the publisher giving a statement about this huge backlash also makes it seem like our guess about the "wrap it up call" is very possible.