Hmm Amber didn't get in the school for the super-gifted-best-in-the-world people on swimming scholarship. She made it on her regular grades that were good enough the school wanted her in and offered her full scholarship to have her in. So i believe you're pretty much shitting on all her hard work and actual talents when you focus on swimming as her potential future.
Swimming isn't a career route even for Liz -- her mother acknowledges it in the epilogue where you do spare Erik, saying she'll need to have an actual, real work in a few years when she is no longer in her physical prime. It's not potential future for either of them, and so you aren't destroying anything if you reduce it back to what it was originally -- just something they enjoy casually in their free time, without any sponsors. They still get to do it together, which is all they've ever cared about.
(also, and this is just a sidenote, are we seriously supposed to believe that no other sponsor in the world would be eager to sign up two top-tier swimmers, and Erik is their only such option, ever? Please. If it doesn't happen it's because Liz has no actual interest in pursuing this)
Erik didn't pay for the cancer treatment of Lucy's daughter either. I don't see any evidence in the game to think he'd pay her anything other than a salary, and there's no reason to believe the next boss will suddenly stop paying it.
And like i said, i don't feel especially inclined to feel much sympathy for Lucy. She's made her choices and thus made her bed. While it's perfectly understandable why she'd choose well-being of her daughter over literal lives of girls who were strangers to her, i trust it's also understandable why i might feel it's quite natural for MC to not like very much someone who'd made such choice at expense of MC's close friend and prioritize her plight. Put it brutally, Lucy's daughter is just as much of a stranger to MC as Liz (and other girls she might've thrown under the bus) was to Lucy. Or even more of a stranger, given Lucy actually interacts with Liz face to face.
It's tempting to try to dismiss Lucy's actions as "ohh she's doing it to save her poor sick daughter" but we only have Lucy's word that she needs this particular job; and rely on big presumptions that there's absolutely no way she could keep her salary with her rapist-slash-murderer boss gone, and no other ways for her to make money otherwise. But what if these presumptions are false (because honestly, they aren't all that believable) and it was just more convenient for Lucy to turn blind eye to what's been going on? Would you still say that putting her own convenience over the lives of young girls wasn't "doing the wrong thing"?
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