I feel like you must be jealous of DC or something, constantly focused on his "pay". If he puts four months of effort into an update, shouldn't he reap the rewards of four months? What you're suggesting is that he only get "paid" for one month of work, which is ludicrous. At your job, when you have a project that you work on for four months, do you give back three months of your salary?
If you want to talk about bad precedents, you don't need look any further than Dark Silver. He put out a monthly update, threw together a bare minimum of images, a few lines of dialogue and probably took three weeks off. I feel like you haven't seen any of the streaming online because DC has put 10x the art into this update that Dark Silver would, and we haven't seen any of the spoiler stuff.