Interesting! So I’m not the author, just the submitter. No relation to the author.

I understand how you see the payment/signup process. However it didn’t even occur to me that people approaching the site would see it that way :) I found it engaging and charming with a haze of mystery. There’s a useful lesson here.

I’m 100% confident the author doesn’t mean to defraud anyone at all, in the slightest.

As I find the contents speak quite deeply to me, may I ask you to see how the author responds and reevaluate? I think this is first and foremost a labor of love and humanistic ambition.