Basically this. Noh Mah Mah briefly mentions the relationship between the various clans, but it's best to kind of think of it more as a balance and a systematic force, rather than a simple rock paper scissors "x beats y" kind of thing. Each of the elements constrains or builds up the others...
I mean, the functional choice they made is to remove their scans from a site that at least respects the wishes of scanlators and artists, and to submit to being pirated to hell by shit-tier websites. Their fate will inevitably be for people to read their material from bad websites, regardless...