Spot on.
It's one thing to be directly involved as the players, managers, commenters, pundits, etc. are, and something completely different to be a UK-based BBC/ ITV employee with no involvement in this fiasco.
As for Neville himself: If he makes a statement on live TV from Qatar stating that the WC should never have been awarded to them in the first place, that there was more than a whiff of corruption about it, that the treatment of migrant workers is a disgrace and that the continued persecution of homosexuals has no place in a civilised society in 2022 then he might recover some of his reputation. Of course, he won't as it would be rude to upset your hosts.