Yes it does, because it punishes paying customers who have no motive to subscribe without access to the best trees, which often do get privatized and removed once a certain level of completeness and correctness has been reached.
And many of them know that as so they privatize. It's that old tit-for-tat concept.
But it's clear to any genealogist that's worth the term genealogist and it's clear to any programmer whose job is to help the end user that these online trees on ancestry should be including the records images as standard operating procedure for a genealogical professional. The ideal that a famous rich person would pay big bucks to have a family tree created for themselves online and then be told once it's done, they need to continue to pay each month to continue to view their tree is ridiculous. We are continually told to keep our data online to protect against data loss but oh, by the way you must pay extra money after your research is done to view your work.
The don't stay in business trying to force customers that have completed their work to continue to pay for having completed past work but by getting new customers. If you fail that your business is failing anyway. Simple economics.