Look, I'm one of the people who has managed to somehow hurtle over the $100 threshold for D2D (but not by a comfortable amount tbh).
It won't be sustainable for me to stay on there if I don't put out at least a book every year, especially considering I'm being laid off from my job at the end of the month. And I'm in the middle of a move. And like... I don't have a partner I can rely on financially in order to pursue writing full time to have a better chance at reaching that milestone every twelve months.
If I have to, I'll pull my books and list them individually (and painfully) on every retail site they were available previously (except Smashwords, which is ONLY through D2D). Tax forms and all.
I'd been planning to publish directly on Kobo, but this really puts me in a position to either leave D2D completely because that would take a chunk out of potential future sales to meet that D2D requirement or to remain stuck on D2D for everything besides the 'zon, which honestly sucks.
The one thing I won't do is go back to Kindle Select/Kindle Unlimited. I made more on D2D than I was ever able to make with 2 books in the program over ~7 months. I can't go back.
