There was little popular support in Indiana for redoing the maps mid-stream. The voters did not want it and were pretty upfront about it. They don’t have a problem with making changes after the 2030 census though. The new USSC ruling may change that. But we only have 2 dem seats now and neither would be easy to undo without major gerrymandering.
2030 Census should not count Illegal Aliens. That is a decision currently pending at SCOTUS.
It was still doable since Republicans control the House, Senate and the Governor’s office. Trump, Vance (who made a trip there). and Braun supported it, however the RINO’s in the Senate simply caved.
The fact is, Indiana has very contiguous, very compact, very fair looking districts. The one Democrat representative who is black has a nearly perfectly rectangular district. The other Democrat who is white has a pretty compact district, the 1st District, but if you look at it you will see there is an odd northeast “bump” in the district and the southern boundary of the district is wavy. Based on the demographics, if you take that “bump” out making the east boundary straight and straighten out the southern boundary to balance the numbers you’d go from a D+1 district to an R+3 or R+4 district - and it would be even more compact/contiguous than it is now - not even remotely the “major gerrymander” you state - quite the opposite.
I’m not suggesting I think Indiana *should* do this or that it is either the right or the wrong thing to do - but one additional R and one less D in Indiana is trivially easy to do with ZERO gerrymandering.