OK, I have to ask: what is the rest of the backstory behind this?

I mean, for sake of argument let's accept that for whatever reason, WMS wants out of the pinball biz. Fine.

There's still literal tons of assets to sell, trade, or barter toward some sort of return: tooling, IP, patents, inventory, facilities, personnel... I mean, companies do this all the time, and you'd think it required in the interests of "maximizing shareholder value" toward the bottom line.

So why NOT sell it? What's the point? Some crackpot puritanical crusade to save the world 'cuz foozball is tha devil? A personal vendetta to screw employee(s) honed to very specific skillsets by ensuring they might never find work again by imploding the industry? Something even more ludicrous?

I mean... I don't get it...

I dunno, Vid, I think that's too kind. I mean, I get what you're saying and all. But in a generally literal sense I always presumed that cocksuckers had their reasons...