How does that possibly work? How do they continue with zero of the staff?

They replaced them with staff in Italy. Bending Spoons is an Italian (Milan) company.

They wanted the product not the developers.

Simple. They get new staff whose job is to shove intrusive surveillance and advertising into the product and push out an update, they don't have to support or develop the product.

The company bought the product to bilk money out of its existing users. They throw the product in the bin once all the users have gone.

Sadly, some ants get infected with corydceps. Tragic for the ant, but the other ants get it the fuck away from their colony, because they don't want to be next.

As an Evernote user, Bending Spoons has been iterating fast over the past couple years to improve the product. It’s much better than it used to be.

What the value prop of continuing to use Evernote versus other newer solutions like Notion? Interested to hear from someone still using the product

Notion is more than I need. 99% of the time I just need to write something down for later.

I have tried them all, and ended up with a fileofax rip off, and a box of index cards!

Transitional severance agreements to have the current staff transfer operations to new staff.