Thanks endso for the excellent sum-up. You are spot on, as always.

One thing I would add on top of that, and that pertains to the official silence.
It does not bode well.

Any company tries to promote itself. When whatever happens, especially when sh1t happens, the company's PR department works overtime to spin it to maximise profit or at least minimise damage. That's just how business works.

If the PR machine goes silent, it usually suggest one or both of the two possible explanations:
1) The sh1t is so bad that they could not come up with any spin to make it look good; or
2) The PR department is staffed with a bunch of dilettantes who do not know their noses from their ar$es.

If you do not believe me, just look at any instance of Jolla going quiet about anything in the past. The tablet fiasco? A typical case 1 scenario. The perenial lack of visible roadmap or estimates on any bug fixes? Case 2. Soon™? Case 2 again.

I do not give a flying duck about Marc or the actual reasons for his departure. But I do find it suspicious that an event of such magnitude did not result in a press conference or at least a press release. Silence is always bad.