From what I saw, they did not gain money by sticking around. They lost money in various ways. One of them being a lot of CSNO being sold in the buyback program. Another one was exploits. Other legitimate winners. Some players won too, of course. They scammed customers only after I left and I doubt anyone played serious amounts there anymore at that point. None of that speaks for anything other than incompetence. If they did as you say, they should have packed their bags years ago. But they didn't, the stuck around.

When I spoke to investors about it, the ones I spoke with concluded that the point hope was lost when they let go of long-time employees like me.