Maybe the issue here is that "the burning question" here is less about how it works, and who qualifies, than it is about what is the payout schedule... is it a fixed thing every month (last payout was on the 19th), or does it depend on payment drops from the ad service (which I know can be variable) and so on and so forth.
As I've said with this and pretty much everything else: new tech is never easy.
One major regret I have is building all this payout tech. Sometimes I wonder if buy/burn is better. Once you involve people receiving money, they get all nuts about it
Once the tech is stabilized, it will be the 1st of every month with virtually no downtime. This is brand new, it will take us some time to get there
Of course! Tech takes time... Long term, the payout tech will serve you, because it engages people more than basic buy/burn would... and communities live and die on engagement, in the long term.