That doesn't in and of itself mean that they paid on time. It could have auto renewed, but then their account went in the red and they just have not paid yet.
Not that I know anything about their position specifically, but I own a number of domains and this has actually happened to me on a few occasions, because it was set to auto renew, but there was a problem with billing me that I just didn't notice. In fact, even though I pay my web hosting 2 years ahead of time, Dreamhost will suspend ALL domains if even one is unpaid, and data can even be compromised, which I have long disagreed with.
I'm inclined to believe that their domain came up for renewal March 27th 2019 and had some problem processing payment for the renewal which was done automatically and they just didn't catch it in time since they are busy working on support for 7.0.1 and it will take time to process payment. Since this was started right around the time that renewal would have happened, this is a likely scenario, unless someone has evidence that it was paid ahead more than a year.
Again, I don't know anything about their situation. This is mere speculation based on my own experiences.