I'm brand new here and I have to say you've confirmed a lot of things that weren't sitting right with me for a long time.
I started watching their channel almost from the beginning and was one of the first 'family members'
I only paid for about 3 months because it all felt very much like an after thought and I wondered what the hell i was paying for! The recipes were hard/impossible to follow and sometimes had errors. I suggested they write the recipe out for us in the comments and was ignored along with many others who asked. It just seemed too much trouble for them!
I'm not one for jumping on lives whenever the whim takes them so I never joined in those and honestly thought it was just not worth the money.
I saw people who were paying branded trolls and blocked on the lives that I did have the misfortune of joining, that upset me because they were just expressing a different opinion.
It seems that unless you're a sycophant you're not welcome.
All left a bad taste for me and I can't stomach watching their vlogs anymore. They're hideously out of date (usually by at least a month) and come across staged a lot of the time.
Ugh so much more but I'll leave it at that for now, but I'm glad I found you guys