I once had a client, owner, tease about being the second highest paid person in his organization; lamenting that his VP of Sales made more money than he did. Actually, he was fine with it as without the outstanding sales results he'd have had less for himself, and a heck of a lot less for the rest of his team. Sometimes its hard to determine who the owner is, who the employee is, and certainly who the team is.
While the money was important, this owner would have never "sold" his business to someone for money only. I think that is what we've seen here, protect the future at the expense of the immediate; if required.
Finally, I know this won't go over well because it is a positive for Mike Hamrick, but I recall comments on here about him warning our last President about the "talk-abiity" of Huff, words matter.