As you said, think of it from their perspective. They're a company, known as privacy-oriented, that believes privacy is a human right and should be preserved at all times. "At all times" means regardless of who, which, what, when, where. Their focus is on everybody's privacy, not on yours, mine or theirs.

If they're threatened to not be private, while that's the only principle they follow since the development of Wasabi, what do you think it's reasonable thing to do? Besides, there wasn't such pressure. Nobody forced them do nothing. This happened voluntarily, which shows that the fish stinks from the head.