It was always never about his batting though.
I certainly agree with that! Personally, I feel that if it was only about his batting then he'd still be in the team. In fact, it's near as dammit a statement of the obvious.
I'm intrigued by the mentions of legal conversations, of gagging clauses and confidentiality. A lot of this will obviously to do with contract matters but I get this vague feeling of there being something else....with no idea nor suggestion of what that might be. All my conjecture of course.
I think the ECB might want to have a look at how they do things (selection included) in the future but, for now, we are were we are and you play by current rules.
I remain convinced that KP has p*ssed a lot of people off big time. Sufficient for there to be team mutiny if he were to be selected again. You get egos and arrogance in the dressing room in any sport. It goes with the territory, many successful sportsman are arseholes almost by default. Normally, it's managed and tolerated. Usually there's a common ground found for the sake of the team. That this hasn't happened with KP speaks volumes to me. Again, just my conjecture.
I suspect we'll never really know - but I expect there'll be gossip, and maybe autobiographies to come. I certainly don't expect the ECB will ever officially clarify any further.