It’s probably just an advanced payout that will be deducted from the final sum, that most likely will be settled in court.
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There will no doubt be a NDA, but taken at face value: no strings attached and does not affect rights
Possibly ‘cheap’ positive PR in the greater scheme of things?
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Or to avoid being sued for not doing enough to help the passengers.
In any case, it’s probably not the last payment the passengers are seeing.
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Skimmed through some YouTuber thoughts on this. Can’t remember who posited the theory…but I think it has some merit…that the flying pilot fell victim to an interesting illusion that might have caused this accident. Apparently the edges of the runway were possibly obscured by snow…blowing snow. This could lead to an illusion of being higher than you actually are…sort of a riff on the narrow runway illusion. If so, the pilot’s sight picture would have looked a little odd…feeling they were higher than they were and delaying the flare (or not flaring at all).
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And an icy runway may have spoofed the radio altimeter countdown…
Well let’s hope people don’t flare based on an RA callout. I do buy the snowy runway theory—especially windswept laterally across the surface. It can be very confusing if it’s not something you’ve experienced before.
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No, but hearing the countdown is a part of the clues we register in that segment. You may not act on them, but you do register the callouts if you are used to hearing it.
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And not a real pilot myself, but certainly in the sim the difference between “fifty… forty… thirty” and “fiftytwentyten” elicits a different response in the arms 
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That 20-10 call definitely helps influence my flare. Do fine without it flying older metal (or the sim today), but agree with the two comments above.
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