The paywall issue was a huge thing for mangamagaizne/inkblazers as well.
And as much as readers would scream and yell and whine about it, there was nothing we (the artists) could do about it. The paywalls where set up by the site, not us. We had no control over them.
Then the demands to host it on free sites or 'sites they're not FORCED to make an account on' (because making an account is asking too much of them as well) were also thrown at us, and if we responded with "They pay us to keep it exclusive here / it is uploaded there as well but they pay us to keep updates several months ahead here than other sites" fits were thrown and the artists were the greedy entitled ones that were selling out, didn't care about fans and 'driving away any new readers'