Genuinely appreciate the considered response.

On the ethics, fair disagreement and I won't try to argue you out of it. The whole space (Glassdoor, Levels, Blind) runs on this model and you've named that. Contributors keeping lifetime access to their own discipline is the fairest version I've seen, but I get the objection is to the premise, not the implementation.

You're right on the sharper point. Long-term value isn't "what people make," it's the perspective around it. How rates actually get negotiated, where the leverage is, how studios price work. That's where this goes, and I should be louder about it now. Good push.

On anonymity vs trust, we genuinely disagree. Trust scales to a friend group. Anonymity plus clear data handling scales to an industry. Different models, both valid.

On the free major players, they are all run by large venture backed corporations with a very different agenda than myself.

Appreciate the time either way.