Truthfully, you'll likely see very little change in the next few years, but they wouldn't do it if they didn't see an advantage to it. The article outlines some of them.

Being publicly traded means you don't follow any sort of ethics, mission statement, or even actual business metrics anymore, you chase incredibly toxic and self destructive short term profit over all else. Being private means they might be and to recover from their bullshit, especially since a death spiral for a corpo is centuries long apparently.