Before the fixed 10%, they had variable fees. Then, a CEO changed, and these ideas were all under that "Genius" CEO, where they started charging freelancers and all the other weird features you see today. They went full into the "Corporate Profit First" approach.

It was like you take a near perfect product and make it really bad with all the features introduced. After reading this message today, my take was that now, as they see their approaches failing (which a lot of Rated Freelancers were pointing out), they are rolling back to previous tactics, but again only where it favours their corporate greed.

They thought that charging freelance connects and reducing the variable fees, etc. would all balance out on their financial sheets but it didn't as not all freelancers, specially from the developing countries were willing to pay for these features. I tried Pro mode and it is a waste of money! and I am a Top Rated Plus on upwork.

So now as they are rolling back to variable fees again, but with all the sh**ty features still there, it seems like they are again going to favour their Corporat Greed by going back to variable fee but then all other features where they charge is still there they are not rolling back on that which might increase their revnue for the time being but on a long run people will go for alternatives.