I guess you missed the blog posts and comments from those who haven't had "consistent support" from whales. Maybe they haven't received as much visibility because of that, but they do exist - you just have to find them.
Regardless - is it not possible to separate the arguments made from the people making them? Because I honestly don't see why someone's earnings matter if their arguments are sound and their data is correct. That would be a fallacious argument to make against their position.
I haven't missed them, in fact I vote for them. Probably fifty percent of the posts I vote on make under a dollar because they got overlooked. But the point I was making is that without groups such as curie the number of posts making under a dollar would be a hell of a lot closer to a hundred percent. Because who else is spending their time looking for new users and good material and making sure it gets rewarded? If they were to dismantle tomorrow, who is going to step up and do what they do? Oh and a hundred times better than they do it, which is what people seem to be asking.
I'm not attacking anyone, I'm just completely confused as to what it is the people arguing about the guilds are trying to achieve. What is the solution, what can be done that's better, how can it be done, and who is going to do it?