I guess no bounty hunters have interest to use NMX token to pay trading fees or they even don't use Nominex exchange. The news gives a more transparent information for them.
Correct, bounty hunter will usually simply turn the token into money and done with it. Although there is some of them are trader, but not all of them who will trade there after what happened to them. After all, after waiting so long to get 100% of their salary, who wouldn't sell it right away.