Everything in Stock is so subjective, yes.

shutterstock was one of my first agencies, I started around year 2013 but they got extremely greedy and instead of cutting their expenses they started to rob contributors. The best evidence for this is cutting the minimum payment per photo from $0.25 to $0.10. In a world with inflation and increasing prices, this is just ugly. I don't upload there anymore, not I suggest a photographer does. It is just plain robbery. Some of the colleagues deleted completely their contributor accounts at SS.