jfc what even is the point of scanlating drama
Ego protection.
It's ridiculous when you consider the hypothetical of, say, a scanlation being provably bad while the so-called sniper produces a demonstrably superior translation.
And if someone can produce an equal or better translation job in less time, why should viewers be inconvenienced because the person holding "dibs" on a given work either intended to silently drop the project without telling anyone, isn't able to attend to it because this isn't their job, or actively holds "dibs" on several other projects and the given work isn't even top priority?
If there's this etiquette about sniping, is there also etiquette about sitting on projects, or silently dropping projects?