Ask HN: Any Opinions on the X-Team Freelancing Platform?

Today I came across X-Team (https://x-team.com) for the first time and was surprised I'd never heard of them. I've been a freelancer for 2 years now and still struggle with building a sales pipeline and the "feast or famine problem".

My first impression is that they look similar to TopTal, which makes me slightly apprehensive since TopTal was fairly uniformly slammed on this Ask HN thread from ~6 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10107448

So has anybody used X-Team? Or am I just chasing an illusion with these "freelancer platforms" because by definition they are a huge middleman that will suck the profitibility out of all the gigs on their platforms?