Qidian is so short sighted it astounds me. Dropping a novel at 1100 chapters when there are 1700 is flabbergasting. When it is completed, you are looking at people binging the whole book. Any new reader has a lot of chapters to cover.
I feel that it is the typical short term returns mindset. They really do not realise that since I have been burned a few times, I will no longer read a single unfinished novel on this site? Goodwill DOES matter, and you are collecting a lot of bad will right now.