I don't mean any malice by this, as I understand what a pay package is, but you really should've started selling when "microslop" took off as a nickname.
and if they don't allow you to sell, you should've known you were being lined up as a patsy for the c-suits.
It never has had any connection to reality. It's always been at the whims of ignorant rich fucks that own most of the stock.
They did, if by "everyone" you mean rich detached executives that constantly make decisions they have not the intelligence to understand.
Because they stuck to the "conservative" party. It's grossly ignorantly conservative, but that's a bit redundant to say on top of the US sort of "conservative"...