Probably for the best
Like Jim said, Q was whitelisted from salts. This is what you would expect from a website dealing with dormant accounts.
Not whitelisted from salts when active, but whitelisted from salts when dormant, "long ago" (according to Jim). You can keep pretending this isn't true, but it's what Jim said, and it fits with standard business practices. Can you prove otherwise with something other than "but muh salts didn't work that way in the past"?