This looks like the best possible outcome, and what I (albeit, rather poorly worded) said a few months back. John loses his real job, but Disney keeps him on contract, although, for a much shorter time than I thought.
He'll still be on Disney's payroll for over six more months, and probably will receiving royalty checks and other benefits for the rest of his life. For someone with such accusations, he has it pretty good going forward, especially when compared to others (although to be fair, pretty much all of them had victims go "on the record").
I don't see him being a leader anywhere else and he doesn't need to be, he's made enough money already and can be mostly retired while offering consulting services to Disney and other studios. He could get a bigger role than that or start his own company, but I don't see it. I don't imagine he wants that and I think there's some obvious challenges to that.
Consulting is probably his productive future, and we'll see a new generation of great leaders pop up. I think it could be an exciting time in animation.
