Seems like they realized they weren't making enough revenue to account for all these costs, which is pretty obvious if you look at all the promotions and leaderboards they run vs the amount of wagered they actually get.
It's of course perfectly normal for a company to restructure and reduce costs, but it's very scammy of them to change the rules in the middle of these promotions and disqualify players when players have already played or wagered according to the old rules, and in my case they have even banned my account altogether using multi accounting as an excuse which is obviously not true (since they themselves had admitted they were wrong when they unbanned me the first time).