Even if Jon did verify his PayPal account, it's highly likely that it would have been shut down anyway. PayPal are notorious for randomly closing down accounts of small businesses/websites after they make a decent amount of money - particularly high volume low dollar amount transactions.
It happened to one of my online businesses, once we made about $30k in 6 months (during the start of covid) our verified account was terminated without a reason given, and worse still is that they lock up your account balance for 180 days without any way to access it. There's a reason that the wiggers use Stripe for Fishtank.