They were asked repeatedly, in several interviews starting from the day they announced it, and they always sidestepped the question entirely. At some points the

They were asked repeatedly, in several interviews starting from the day they announced it, and they always sidestepped the question entirely. At some points they even framed it as the customer or interviewer being afraid/not ready for the future and other patronising ways of saying "clearly we simply won't ever shut down" instead of answering the question.