The leading writer income stats thing suggests to me that a few people might burn themselves out or may be multiple people on one account. Below is the current top 10.

11125 Writer $4504
253537933 Writer $3559
16463 Writer $2874
262198408 Writer $2856
251988118 PRO writer $2711
259292733 Writer $2611
110686 Writer $2484
21104 Writer $2424
4969 Writer $2188
3158 Writer $2150
Notice the drop off from one to two? notice the dropoff from two to three? three to ten? That's incredible.
Let's consider the base pay. Base pay on orders varies from $5 to like $9 on the rare ultra-rush grad order.
Bonuses, from what I can see vary from 10% to about 35%. Let's say someone has a weighted average pay per page of $7.00 (very generous). They would be pulling in $9.45 after bonus. The highest paid person would have to write 477 pages in 30 days. That would mean almost 16 pages a day.
So in the most profitable scenario conjured up, they would still need to write 16 pages a day. Granted, a 16 page day isn't that big a deal, I was doing 20 pages no problem at one point, but at writerbay they take 1-2 page orders like crazy. So you have to set up, get into the topic, then wrap up like 10 times in a 16 page day. Then you're doing 1 page in TNR, you will have spill-over on each paper, so it becomes 20 pages TNR, then you have revisions where clients add **** post-hoc and these people are all Indian so they don't understand you, they call you on the phone at all hours, it's just a pain.
I think they are doing some things to make it work better as a business, but the design is pedantic because, tbh, I am a good, fast, dependable writer and I like to make a decent wage per page. They just don't value good or dependable, they just want fast. Everyone in the industry wants to be a cost leader, everyone ditches quality. What sucks is that means you gotta do more dissertation, thesis and capstone work and those can be a real headache. The good thing is that Kenyans, EEs and Asians can't do that stuff worth a darn.