Not always. Basically you need a creator that understands business enough to have their own style and still make money. But it's super difficult. To make it easier, you end up with creators that specialize in creation and businesspeople that specialize in business attempting to join mismatched puzzle pieces together. What you get is usually something where much of the fun is taken away.
That is a problem in almost any field. Professionals are busy doing their job, then management tries to do their job by ordering the professionals around. The only problem is management doesn't understand what the professionals actually do, so they either mess things up or are ignored by the professionals. This disconnect is especially noticeable in the education or medical fields. Principals don't have to have had teaching experience and management doesn't need to have taken care of patients before. Of course, that doesn't mean they are all bad at their jobs. It is just easier to detect incompetence in those fields.
Member i member... The most devastating one for me is Bakastuki. (I know its still around but it just isnt the same )
How is this similar, from what I understand he thinks videogames are a peice of shit form of entertainment (his own words are less valuable than more traditional media) and sold the rights to make videogames from them thinking it wasnt going to do well. Then once it did well he realized that the clause only stated the first game not 2 and 3 so he pushed for more money. Not saying the guy doesn't deserve more money but i felt like the situation was he underestimated the video game market and just got salty that the videogame market pushed his work to a new level outside just books. Not to mention they made a TV show the hexer before the video games too. Im not saying your point isnt wrong but I dont know where you are coming from please inform us.
Original owner sold the whole shebang, site and all, to they who completely suck, for an unknown amount of money and said suckers then proceeded to drive the site into the ground by either moving novels to webnovel or just cutting novels altogether.
GT coulda been a great site with continued revenue like WW but it got sold for a lump sum and now theres no going back.