[tardigras]

Storj internal person here: If you're referring to the change from publishing a payout sheet to providing the new payout tool, we did this to better protect the privacy of our farmers. Even though all the data you're talking about is public (on the ethereum blockchain and the Storj network) we didn't want to make it easy for those who might want to target farmers (those sharing their hard drive space) on the network. Usage on the current network has dropped off significantly due to us limiting new users while we build out network V3. If you haven't checked out the alpha, you can run a local test network following tutorials on our GitHub: github.com/storj/storj