People should remember even the Crew has a life outside NG. A lot of manual operations eat precious time and we try to avoid that.
Most transactions incur costs, be they visible or hidden.
Again, more subscribers mean more dedicated members and in all likelihood more activity on the site. The latter is the top priority, as long as we can keep a running site. The NG Crew is not in this for profit anyway, but paying for site costs out of our own pockets is not sustainable or desirable over time. Currently we have funds to secure operation until mid 2025, if I got the economic data right.