Brother what is your point. Are you kdt scans biggest warrior or something? Lets go over each point.
"-It's dishonest as fuck to pretend that people doing these third-party scans and translations aren't doing it with a goal in mind,"
Bro this guys account has no group. He has no website or any contact info on his profile. There's no watermarks or link to discord or PayPal or anything. What could he possibly be gaining from this. Kdt scans literally had a patron that would release chapters earlier which is ban able by the rules but even then I wouldn't care as it's their work as long as it's not garbage quality go ahead and profit off it. This guy isn't even profiting though so yes he's doing it for the love of the game he literally states that his mtl translation came out well so he'd polish it and post it for people to read sooner. What is so hard to understand here?? Kdt scans didn't post for months that's their problem people want to read the manga on their manga reading site no one cares who got it first.
Idk what your point is about the wheel being broken. Yea the censor is annoying, this guy can't just develop art skills to decensor idk what to tell you.
"It's also pretty sad that "muh faster MTL snipe" is justification enough to support them, but you can keep that one."
This is a manga reading site?? People use this to read manga. If the manga releases faster then that's a valid reason to "support" them. What other value could there possibly be besides translation quality and possible decensoring(which is already extremely rare) to use on translator over another besides translation speed. What is sad about that it's the literal point of this platform, to pirate and read manga.
And why do you keep saying "support" he's not making money off this. He has nothing linked that could possibly give him money from "sniping" this and even said to read kdt scans if his translations are not preferred. And again if he did have some way of funding as long as it's not affecting the quality of the work, who cares. Neither of us are supporting kdt or this guy with actual money obviously so this high ground of "support" doesn't exist.
People will read the faster translator until a better translation drops that's all, no need to bash on the faster guy cause the "quality" one is slower but did it first.