The sort of people who took the exit bonus clearly wanted to get the fuck out of that hellish situation rather than do what was harder by staying in the fight.

What is the suicidal impulse but acting on the intense desire to just want this hell to end under the belief that there's no way out any time soon, no light at the end of the tunnel?

It was upon drawing this connection that I more firmly understood that suicide is every bit as counterrevolutionary as politically active anti-natalism. The right thing to do is apparently to prolong your own suffering in the face of no immediate hope, under the rational belief that everything is going to get worse until you die a natural death (or by the violence of poverty). That's an extremely hard message to swallow for people with no reliable source of emotional support.