THIS is the nuanced take. it's been incredibly frustrating in the past year or so that SO many people just read fics and never interact with them. i've been in fandom for a long time and i've never had fics with such an imbalanced ratio of hits to comments.
Here’s my 2 cents on the ao3 drama&conflama: I don’t care if people download/share my fics (I download fic all the time. I read on an ereader). I don’t care that during this outage people are asking for epubs of my work or sharing my work in drives. That being said it is annoying