Even if that is part of the reason, what he thinks is a solution only appears to be stop gap measure. In short term it might drive more people to buy if they are deeply invested in the platform, but in the long run it will force more people away from it, causing the whole thing to crumble. Am fully expecting them to stop allowing account removal or claiming they have more users than they actually do. Who would want to advertise on a desolate platform otherwise.