Man, now that you mention it, I feel nostalgic about the days of fan scan groups. Ggs, rose squad, and naonoholics were my bread and butter for a while! There's fewer active scan groups now, so I find so much joy when they upload despite the rampant LLM output. I understand why a scan group might prioritize the release of officials, and I think it's nice when they're being respectful of the author.
I started preferring officials because they became more enjoyable to read compared to the rise in poor translations, MTL, and now "AI" (god I have so much to say about llms). Too many uploads now don't have the same consideration and etiquette towards translation and the author's work. I miss the etiquette of well-formed scan groups and power solo translators...
Maybe it is only me (and absolutely no hate to any of the uploaders. Thank you for doing it!) but it does bother me a little that basically all works lately have two versions, that end up with only the official translation updating in the end.
Maybe it is because I enjoy fan translations a lot and it reminds me of when I started reading on this s site. Author notes about the word choice, cultural things or just commentary was a highlight of a work. And because I in a very one sided way liked to imagine how someone got to practice the languages because they enjoyed it.
But as I said. No hate to the person uploading the official translation. Appreciate the time, effort and possible money spent on doing it. Just reflecting over a trend and pondering over how things have changed now that more media gets a translation and is sold worldwide.