Or Stas Oskin (Core Dev & Bus Dev of Wings.ai), Boris Povod (Co-founder of Wings). And incidentally, do not tell me what now with his Wings project, why the price for the token has decreased many times? I know that they have not fully paid for their holders. These guys found a new topic, smelled new money. It's so simple!
First of all, you fail to mention that the project is being pivoted into a new DeFi platform, pending to be re-launched later this year. There will be a new token utility, oriented at value capturing, that aims to provide value to token holders.
Second the token price is still higher than the donation price back in 2016 (where Wings collected less than 2M$).
Third, if you mean by "paying holders" rewards that Wings platform provided in exchange for the forecasts, the only pending reward is Coti, which will be distributed onwards as well. The absolute majority of Wings rewards has been provided by the platform, resulting in over 10M$ of a distributed token value.