it needs quality writers
No one is going to pay even a dismal $5 a month endlessly for things that are so poorly written you can read it three times and still not be sure what you've read.
Or one that is formatted so poorly you aren't sure where one thought ends and the next begins.
If you're going to charge someone for access to whatever it is that you're peddling it has to be a cut above. There are too many places where you can read decent stuff for free.
Standalone readers (not writers or the hybrid writer/reader) don't give a rat's patoot what the platform does or does not do. They come here to read. Not see the latest platform hack, latest glitch, latest follow-for-follow scam, etc.
Until real writers start consistently writing good stuff that doesn't have the "M" word in it... ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯