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GoblinGuy man, you sound more of a privileged white-guy stereotype from the US. Not that I am discriminating anyone, just pointing it out.
"For some reason more popular scanlators seem to forget what fan-scanlating is for" this sentence of yours seem to indicate that you think scanlating is a very easy thing to do and that they do not waste their precious time just so they can please your needs for quality scanlated manga/manhua. Yes, most scanlators get copy of their raw for free (or not, not sure on the demographics on that) but whatever they want to do with what they have done with it (in this case, scanlate it), is up to them. They can put them up whatever website they choose to, theirs only or also on other popular manga sites then they gain fans because they do a good job. These fans then get them pressured to do more (or faster) as the number of them goes up but by that time then, I think its fair that they ask for support (as long as these are optional and not forced upon or subject people on unfair rules such as waiting more than 24 hrs for a release to those who hasn't donated) since they can't just do scanlation all the time as they have their own lives and need to earn a living. You seem to forget that.
P.S. Noone is forcing you to join a hundred different discords and force you to manually check each. Actually, noone is forcing you to read this series. If you want to read manga, you gotta appreciate the people who bring that to you, for free, wherever it may be.