As it shows the reality is not that operators are healthy.
From my previous post: Untitled spreadsheet - Google Sheets
Just increasing the storage price from 4$/TB to 5$/TB would make it profitable (without considering other resources…). Decreasing the piece ratio can also make it profitable with the same pricing. However, the pricing is bad from the beginning and discounter logic. Actually storj would have had advantages in competition to the other products out there, but massively undersold itself. Instead of selling at a proper price you went for being the cheapest. There has never been a value in being cheap rather than being good. Customers ultimately expect to trust a service and the first part must be that the business model is not thin air.