Yeah, this is the same as how they insisted Gina Carano (i think that's her name) got "fired" from The Mandalorian. No, she just wasn't brought back. Hell I don't even think they recast her character. Just didn't bring the character back at all. Each season of a tv show, each singular movie, each production is an entirely different contract. They just have no understanding of how these things work and its very frustrating to me as someone in the industry.