Um, but going back into what orchestrated it, yes there were a lot of hands behind the scenes pulling strings to make things happen, so if that's true then I don't understand why people stubbornly selectively say Foggy's not to blame because it was orchestrated, buuuut... in the same breath they also say everything was Matt's fault and nevermind the orchestration? Foggy was seriously complicit in what went down, what got them to that point. When Matt was first accused, he was the one who wanted to come out and admit it, and it was Foggy who shot him down and told him to shut the hell up and they were going to fight it, they were going to straight up lie to all the papers and media and counter sue. Which is weird because in Waid's run they mentioned how that was all Matt's fault and Matt's decision and uh nope, (retcon is a thing and Matt makes a lot of bad life choices but I wish they'd let Foggy have at least that one important moment in Matt's history but then again Waid believed Foggy was a coward who needed very specific Matt-related motivation to be action-courageous and I kind of don't buy that) that was Foggy's decision and Matt agreed with it. But again, retcon; we can't even blame an unreliable narrator because Matt and Foggy had that whole argument over Matt coming out.

I do think Foggy had plans to stay gone and out of Matt's life when he was shanked in prison, he was scared to death and he was hoping Matt would forgive him, he didn't plan to go back until he was healing up and started worrying about Matt. Like, honestly, did he ever actually think he wasn't going to worry about Matt in witness protection? In what world does Foggy Nelson ever not worry about Matt Murdock? It was supposed to be his thing, his whole thing, in his own words it defined him as a person, at least until the most recent run I guess.