haha...
I'll be honest, High Guardian Spice didn't play a huge role in making me dislike CR, but that's probably because I didn't have much to like even without that.
It would be interesting to see what funds where used for it though, since I'd presume most of the funding came from investors, not subscribers.
Yuki, MAL is starting to show it's age, it's full of XSS vulnerabilities and because the code is likely to be a clusterfuck so they have to slowly fix it. So while that happens they've limited site access to affected pages. Which is pretty much any page that allows users to post images. afaik.