Shifty
I post a forum link in chat that redirects to this forum reply.
Adds link here
This just pushes the harmful link burden to the forums.
As a forum Mod, I will tell you harmful forum links are a pain because all forums are 3rd party software. I really hate forum trolls.
Though Discourse.org appears to have mitigated this with their flag implementation and trust level 0 implementation.
Chat apps like Line/ Discord/ Kik are designed to handle links.
Shifting links
This still requires Development cycles for maintenance of the white list. There is nothing more frustrating than clicking an official link and having it not go through because the white list has not been updated.
Once again, chat apps have these development cycles budgeted for white list maintenance.
Scaling Budgets
Short Answer
Profitabile companies stay profitable by sticking to budgets based on revenue, costs and investor pay outs.
Long answer
This is marketing speak.
Translation:
Based on friends who have participated in successful buy outs, I doubt SGG is allowed to substantially change its business model from when the post you reference was in affect.