CKtalon I agree with you on the fact authors shouldn't be aiming for the Minimum guaranteed system in the first place. it's kind of an idiotic policy in my opinion in the first place the way it's written now.
it encourages the fast release of chapters without taking into account whether the individual author could actually manage that burden. it could easily lead to the death of an otherwise good story.
I agree with your notion that near-constant and regular releases do drastically increase readership retaining rates. but that can just as easily be achieved by having a triweekly release schedule instead of an everyday release schedule. that's why I don't like the way that new clause is written. its like it was written that way for no other reason than to increase the chances that someone who is trying to get that money would fail.
it could have just as easily been written to ask for an update at least once a week with the minimum number of total premium words between 40,000 – 59,999 over the course of the month to be eligible for the $200. instead of what it is now.
and its clear that the author failing is Webnovels intention otherwise they would have written it like my example above.
another thing I want to bring up is I don't know whether this notion that books should be updated daily originates in QiDain or here on Webnovel due to the site originally being for translated works. (its a lot easier to translate at that pace than it is to write) but trying to enforce it thought that clause is dirty and shouldn't be happening.
even the authors who do daily release schedules take a couple of days off every so often whether for rest because of burning out or to take a step back and plan out the next ark of their story or to update their character sheet or some other tool used to keep the story coherent.
by putting that carrot in front of a naive or desperate author you end up leading them to write without planning the story and you end up with a lot of filler, inconsistencies with prior established lore, illogical character development, interactions, and behaviors, and more problems.
it may work well enough for the first 60 days but as the author gets further in without doing any proper planning the chances of those examples to occur increase and when they get far enough in they make a really dumb mistake.
people then get kicked out of their trans of only reading and not absorbing the book and take a step back to see there was clearly something going one for those prior 60 days. they are filled with filler the character development has stagnated and other problems appear.
people get upset and leave and there goes all those readers who you were retaining thanks to your fast release schedule.