Sure, a real dirty fight lol!
The same goes with publications like HubPages where you've to wait for 2 years before their supposed stipend. I'm still waiting now for over 2 years, and nothing seems to suggest that someday soon I can sit with a can of coke in front of me to at least cool down my body and thank my star for the suffering all these years. Talk of modern slavery, if this isn't one of them I wonder what else would be. Many of us writers are going through hell be it with from AI companies or other publications which includes Medium, off course. I get it, we're not writing to get rich not to mention overnight as HubPages clearly points out. But showing some appreciation is the crux of the matter worth pursuing.