You make a lot of salient points here.

I wrote a very long post weeks ago here about my reply to @dan / @dantheman one night. Weeks later, I decided to make it a post about not doing away with rewards and month, or a year later and tied it to my philosophy of us being writers, like a book deal would see.

• you do not stop seeing authors get paid later in life, do you?

That was my main point but I elaborated. I think both can be easily done.

Would (name your top author here) be happy about their work not being rewarded years later and be ok with payments stopped on their content creation?

have a good week man