There's what seems like a pretty big new tidbit in the Low article, which is that Nico skipped a couple of February workouts because of supposed missed NIL payments from Spyre. I'm not naive enough to think that we're as pure as the driven snow, but there is almost no way that could be true.
There have been rumblings that Big Nic was constantly chirping in people's ears about how Nico doesn't have to do that, Nico doesn't have to do that, that's not in the contract, etc., when it blatantly was. It supposedly was difficult at times to pull Nico to contractually-obligated events, skipped some, and Spyre didn't pay him for some stuff because he didn't attend it. Is that true? If so I bet that's what Nico's camp means by "payment issues."