You zoomies would never have made it as manga fans in the old days. The scan quality is bad, but not THAT bad. Besides, does it even count as sniping if the original translator is AWOL?
The original isnt AWOL, but just has some matters coming. I have been in contact with the team member (who are active in the BtR Discord server) and they do admit that fact.
I also need to mention we only have 3 weeks since the last chapter translated. The chapters are on biweekly schedule, so there's barely any backlogs (2 chapter, not a lot we are left behind(. Calling the translator AWOL is an impatient thing to do.
Like, we can even be patient with main series releasing monthly and Ripe Mango taking their sweet time to release, but suddenly the spinoff scanlator missed their schedule and you lose your shit.
This scan is bad, that's it. If a proper team can do their job properly, there's no way the sniper just do a half-ass thing like this. Like they even unnecessarily upscaled the chapter which really hurt my eyes reading it, come on.