Well, they're a company, of course profit is their #1 motivator, just like every other company out there, including bitcoin.com, blockstream, lightning labs, nChain and so on.
I think they're confident in their ability to reveal a nice recovery, so they're going to release the numbers.
They want to be transparent because it will show them in a better light than news articles will.
Yeah that's truth. It's not really a charity.
That also shows that they were probably having issues, enough to offer him an opportunity. The other two will continue to macro-manage, so it seems that he will be performing specific tasks, since he was the Engineering Boss.
I wonder if they are preparing him to lead the company after one or both of them require, it is certainly a possibility.