I believe there were only ever a couple of people running this site.
I believe that claims of "working on other projects" was just public relations for ill-health, imprisoned or dead.
I believe that somewhere in the model - passwords, permissions, payment details, defunct libraries and a ton of tech changes which have not or could not be made - there's no access.
I do not believe it's a rug-pull. The site's out-dated, the moving parts to keep the site working are no longer in synch and whoever is popping in after work every Monday and Friday can only work with the tools and access they have.
It's sad to see a site famous as one of the greats in Bitcoin's journey, go out in the most ignominious way.
My message to the "support" people. Stop trying to handle us. Tell the fn truth. We're Bitcoiners, we like things straightforward. We can handle the truth