What a shocker.
Payday was bottled lightning and Payday 2 was their cash cow.

They almost went bankrupt twice (three times if you count their previous studio, Grin, that also closed due bankruptcy) and needed two “help us not go bankrupt” events to stay afloat.

They broke promises left and right, abandoned three console versions of PD2, bungled two games (Walking Dead and that Payday Mobile), Starbreeze also bungled a game with RAID WW2, added microtransactions as event reward (removed later, but will be back for PD3) and aside weeks of server problems, they also had to delay a Day 1 patch for almost two months because of the cert process for consoles.

And all that is without saying that the base game is a downgrade of PD2 with the terrible xp system, always online (even for solo) and upcoming battle pass/paid currency system.