@wanstarz it's their choice, obviously you don't know any more than they do to make such generalized claims about manga publishing.
Common sense: if going mainstream/serialized is so bad, you'd wonder why scanlators push for their readers to buy official copies when available. Big thonker.
You look like the type of people who read this kind of bs in some forum who knows where and slowly add your own sensationalized bits until it gets bigger and you think your interpretation applies 100% for all cases of artists/authors' serialization because you're "defending" them.
Until said artist speak out for themselves about how unfavorable being serialized is for them, you'd do better to keep that to yourself.
@sanctuario Pao. Sucks that mangaupdates actually hasn't updated their data.