I understand your point, but these comments are from people who paid to read the chapter.
The comments were made on 2024/06/07. As you can see, on that date, chapter 40 was released for free, while chapter 41 was available only for paid access. When a chapter is released for free reading, the next one becomes available for paid access. As you can see, chapter 42 is now available for paid access.
You're right, I didn't notice that, but isn't that even worse?
Apart from this having more impact on the platform than the manga itself—since contracts vary widely between publishers and are notoriously unfair (I know of a certain small mangaka who has a 90/10 split with a particular publisher)—it's well-known that most manga still rely heavily on volume sales to survive, and thrive.
If there's no significant financial impact, there won't be any change. As long as readers continue to pay to read the manga online and its overall popularity and volume sales remain strong, the mangaka won't have much incentive to change their approach. (Or he/his editor gets tired enough of said formula, which granted, is a real possibility)
The problem is, at the end of the day, that this manga, and its current formula, is being such a success that even an English version is on the way.
Not counting, too, that a good bulk of views and comment stats, do come from free readers regardless, just compare the stats on your own picture between chapters and their own timeframe, so, while the comment could have been made by a paying reader, a good chunk of upvotes might've come from free readers, and so on. (Which could be easy to find out if you pay for the chapter and make a comparison pre-free > free, but ain't nobody got time for that)