Exactly my point as well (although some couldn't decipher my post).
Scammers will use any bait to keep investors on the hook a while longer.
I watched another CEO repeatedly blame the OTC for his failure to get pink current.
Here's an especially amusing quote from last December: "New investment will fund our Nasdaq IPO in 2022"
REALLY? Then why are you now Expert Market? Was the strategy to go EM before the big IPO? :-D
Several carrots were dangled this year:
That darned OTC is always interfering with progress - preventing companies on their own platform from filing the requisite paperwork to keep them in business. ;-)