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Those are interesting statements, that RR made and you quoted. But they aren't the same. Let me tease them apart and amplify them a bit:

“There is no allegation in this indictment that any American citizen committed a crime. Nor is there any mention of an any American even inadvertently helping beyond doing things like selling Cloud accounts or rack-mount server space to Russians (who were frequently posing as non Russians). The indictment paints a picture of a secret Russian Army Intelligence (GRU) hacking operation run out of Moscow. (Addresses are given in the indictment.) There are almost no Americans involved. (Two people got hacked by the Ruskies and had their accounts used Individual #1 (a woman in the DCCC) and Individual #2 in the DNC.

There is no allegation it changed the vote count

Attempts to mess with the counting computers failed.

or effected the 2016 election result.

Well that's a stretch. They aren't alleging it because that's not their job, but the rest of us can speculate about it.

Would Hillary have still lost if the Podesta and DNC email leaks had not happened?

There is no way anyone can say, it's an alternative history - but it certainly would have been helpful

Not to have her convention disrupted by leaks the day before it started
Not to have had to fire Debbie Wasserman-Shultz at the convention
Not having Bernie supporters hating you for cheating throughout the rest of the campaign ...
... and therefore picking up a few more Bernie voters in the general election.

ON the other hand, what a horrible weak story for Clinton supporters "We could have won if our cheating had remained hidden".

It's kind of nice that we get to revisit this conundrum again thanks to Mueller.