I associate the pink color with glasses, or with a carefree life or … (I will not say 3rd 
) .But do not be discouraged ahead of time, not all times are good - the most important is the fruits of this activity(because we are waiting for the fruit in the direction of the success of the authors, not just Envato).
My opinion is this: Envato will not drop the ax on his leg, I hope and will not drop this ax to us too.
I do not think that on Envato all these changes (bright banners) were introduced just like that (or that their authors suffered). I doubt it.
Hope is not dead yet, probably this is the lack of communication between the staff and the authors (a nutshell: we do not understand but express anger because they did not tell us something). Something like this.
In order not to keep the authors on negatives, they could just say what they had in mind. This would solve a lot of problems (as for authors who have already begun to leave for non-exclusive accounts, and for all those who remain).