Perhaps the thing I find most annoying about this is that eBay (like all organisations) hoover up a vast amount of information about their users from cookies, web analytics and other sources including the app.
When I worked for a Govt department one of my tasks was extracting use browser information from the web site logs to work out what people were using. We knew exactly how many users were using which operating systems, browser, browser version etc combination. We had a policy to ensure any platform with more than x% (can't recall the exact figure) of the total monthly traffic was supported when updates and upgrades were made.
I would be very surprised if eBay don't have teams of analysts pouring over every last bit of data from our browser and app traffic. I'd be willing to bet they knew exactly how many people were using each version of Android and iOS and hence how many people would be impacted by the new version of app.
As a Govt department we had to support a large range of platforms including "old & obsolete" ones to ensure citizens had access to the website and information. For organisations like eBay it is more a commercial decision - what's the cost continuing to support old versions vs the cost of annoying and possibly losing some customers.
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