Then it will certainly be worth it to me, it is much better than the HB material during the last year.
I sort of agree with your volunteer sentiment, but they are at least getting paid for their time now so they are comitted & have an incentive to put out a high quality product.
I personally enjoy ZL's writing style, it is like reading a story written by a recruits brother, and while he has done those types of posts here in the past, I don't mind paying him $40 a year so that he has the time & incentive to do more of them.
As far as the info comparison to cb2, I think TBS is not trying to compete with the amount of info that cb2 puts out, & I don't plan on canceling my cb2 subscription, but rather gives you a more personal, in-depth look into the BYU people gman & ZL know, & lets them hypothesize a little more openly because they are not tied to the print media.
Hope that helps.