Your team doesn’t know the artist community, but we do. You need to decentralize more and not play the dictator if you want our user numbers to go up. You’re actively holding artists hostage by your centralized system that discourages artists from fully utilizing this app

You’re free to build your own client.

This is not productive feedback. :)

It wasn't very clear what specifically she meant by being held hostage, but I think the meat of the matter is gating video access by power badges. It's a fickle metric that comes and goes, and artists need reliable access.