Either way it demonstrates that their judgement was flawed
Or their judgement is sound, and they correctly assessed that the weirdness of f.lux or the thresholds of their userbase had changed in the intervening 7 years.
IF they first approached in 2009 and then had years of promises it follows that the intervening years should be 5 at the most. but maybe quite a bit less.
Ah, yeah, good catch!
I think it doesn't really eliminate the possibility, though, with different numbers.