Far more ill will was engendered by the attitude of the girls being for sale. The questions about transparency on the mamonus were minor compared to the bizyonos of the maidelach. Now they’re attempting to answer the financial issues, and pretending that the other questions didn’t exist.
Someone asked how many girls signed up. AZ responded “Another question you might want to ask is how many shadchanim registered. That’s probably far more important to the individual girl than how many other girls have signed up.” Let’s see. Nowadays a shadchan get how much from the kalla’s side? $1000? $1500? Sign up with NASI, and you get a sliding scale that starts at 4-5K. Who’s not gonna sign up?