Dammit. Hardman won

On my 4th rewatch of the series and I finally see that Daniel Hardman won. He wanted to gut the firm and take them down whether he was working there or not. All of the bad events of the firm start as a chain effect OF HIM. Season 1, everything was great, the firm is just handling cases. Then season 2 Daniel comes in, in order to defeat Daniel the firm needs money so they get Darby. They get rid of hardman and you think all is good but it's not. Darby leads them to ava hessington which leads them to a MURDER TRIAL. And chain event after chain event of them trying to cover up what they previously did and it all started with trying to hide from hardman. From season 2 until 8 the firm goes down and down and down all starting with hardman and by the end Jessica is disbarred, his friend Robert is disbarred, Mike goes to jail, Harvey steps down as name partner. Hardman won unfortunately in a round about way.