I think might be they have adopted some different technique in there technical and business development approach which results in low cost and hence the hard cap has also gone down.
I am also wondering that why they just drop there hard cap as the project seems to be best project with the reference to the investments and also from the productivity point of view,May be they have got some new techniques that leads to save their amount and time so they just drop there amount of hard cap.
As they down their hard cap I was thinking are they going to compromise some of there feature or they have still had the same goals and the target that they are providing them with the higher hard cap. Does the user have to compromise the same because of this?