The way I see it, is that the site owners have gotten the idea to simply turn this site into a for profit script hosting platform, and are just taking the final steps to clean shop for the payment service providers.
Why host posts for people who just link to their gumroad(RIP) or patreon for paid scripts and direct money there, when you could just host the scripts locally and take a slice of the cake yourself?
GWA tried something similar few weeks ago and the mods over there got sent to the shadow realm for it. But this could be just my extremely tight tinfoil hat speaking.
In the end it is what it is.