prime512 I believe only 1 who feels down. I bet father real life trouble affected him more. If he want to go, he should try Patreon. (If he opened one, he would get some patrons now. Bai showed that.)
Power Stones Ranking is not the indicator of Novel Quality. It is indicator of Novel Popularity. (You can see the growth of 'sex' themed novel. It is 'fun' and thus popular. I still prefer 'researching' real erotica.) I do think WN should prepare about Mature Tag or Erotica genre soon.
The key for Popularity is 'featured' in the front page. So basically Webnovel could decided who will appear on the front page or the top of Power Rank.
Last Wish System is the winner of the 'first' contest after you 'removed' Bai. Alemillach started from the beginning and never 'dropped'. If you read, Volume 3 is started to get interesting. Also the novel is easy to read. This is the key. Also many 'level up' give you doping. This Rabbink admits, I preferred KevinAscending's actually.
Last Wish's success is actually because of Webnovel. Webnovel shows what you could get by contracting to WN. Promotion. You will need to 'trade' some 'share' for that. Some authors might not want that. Last Wish 'followed' the wave and success. It will be a 'legend' for being the first contracted novel.
About better website. If you write a male eastern fantasy novel. Webnovel is the best for an author.
I don't think WN will quickly contracted too many authors at the same time. Besides contracting to WN is not the end goal/the best option for everyone. There is responsibility, and also you might not get many 'money' in the beginning. Some translator didn't want to join WN because their Patreon generates more money.
The platform is new and most readers still had 'free' mindset (including this Rabbink. Lol). So this time is still for 'author' who wants to write to share.