There is a difference between ignoring abuse reports and being immune to a raid by law enforcement. For these authors there is a trade-off between convenience,

There is a difference between ignoring abuse reports and being immune to a raid by law enforcement. For these authors there is a trade-off between convenience, cost and security: using already available infrastructure is probably easier than to set up your own complicated hosting solution. If any of them end up getting caught because of the information gathered by this raid they obviously misvalued one of these aspects in their trade-off analysis. Humans all make mistakes.