Nothing on Pako's twitter yet. He might already have been to bed by the time of the announcement. Might end up waking up to this.
I don't quite buy the failed contract negotiations thing. That can be done without a month long cessation of activities. That can be done with a graduation stream. We know this for a fact, even, because Sana was a thing that existed.
He's been pretty explicit about why he joined. His streams as Lando made him enough money, what he sought were friends to stream with.