Do they not get paid by advertisers per view? Wouldn’t they only ever get paid for either premium or ads for a user, never both?

I completed all the Path of Exile achievements and the most frustrating was to Capture the Flag.

Capture the Flag is a dead game mode so you can be queued literally forever and never find a game. You have to personally wrangle 6 people, convince half of them to queue in a different party without anyone leaving and then actually play the match (which crashes almost immediately).