Assume you own 10,000 MCO tokens. That is 0.001% of the total supply.
Now fast forward about a decade. MCO has become a giant and earns a yearly revenue of 1 Billion USD in platform fees (transactions, ATM withdrawals, conversions, etc.).
Since you own 0.001% of the tokens, you are entitled to a share of 1 Million USD.
This is what was promised and will no longer be delivered. And Kris says this is "pointless", which makes him either clueless, or dishonest. I hope it's the first and that he's going to find a workaround for this, like SONM already did, but I'm not having any hopes for this after his statement.
Kris states that with 100k card users all of the tokens for sale today will be locked up for the use of a "premium" card. So this could mean a decent demand for the token. if the token reached $100 the 10,000 mco in your example would be worth $1,000,000
But all that aside, this was always going to be a thing from the start, on top of the share of fees.