It was a community vote: https://earnbet.io/vote and the team did not vote, so it more of a community decision than otherwise.
However, not everything as voted for there has been executed yet. There release they have been talking about for a while now still has to be release and they said they want to coincide the buyback program with that, so a lot of "cash" has been accumulating ever since the change. So I do expect a price increase still.

However, I agree his message is a bit