As you don't think they deserve thanks that absolutely makes sense for you.
No they don't. I'm glad they've seen sense, definitely. But thanking someone for stopping doing something bad is not my MO. Especially when their statement in no way apologised for that action. It wouldn't take much for them to say 'sorry we got it really wrong'. But they haven't. Until then, whilst I'm happy they have left, I won't be resuming my support of them financially. I won't go into details, but my family have sweated to raise funds for them in the past. I feel their lack of acknowledgement that they didn't listen to the very population they are organised to support is, as Jane Austen would have it: 'badly done'. They have time to redeem themselves but they didn't hit the ground running with that statement. Why do we accept such crumbs with glee? It's victim behaviour... we've got to stop it.