I'm not sure what you mean about there being 0 bugs with patch updates and only patch updates for ToN. You mean bugs showing up in the patch updates only, and that don't show up in the full download or through the launcher? I admit, I have not heard of any such bugs specific to the patch updates, so this is true. But of course, there are often bugs with the updates, whether one downloads the patch or the full new version of the game.
Precisely ... if there are going to be bugs the bugs will be in both the
full version and the patched version (assuming one is up to date with his patching) but patching per se does not introduce bugs which is what Evangelion alluded to, so as far as I am concerned he's totally wrong on this issue.
If someone skipped an update, then frankly that's his problem; and at that point he would need to download the full version. Just coz some do that doesn't negate the utility of such an approach.
About Evangelion's other two points, I am not sure. Evangelion made a point about update patches taking more space than just downloading a new full version each time and deleting the old one. I don't know exactly why this would be the case, but I'm guessing it won't be that much more data, so I'm not concerned about it anyway. The other point he made is that update patches can introduce new bugs specific to them as update patches. I'm not sure why this should be the case, as I didn't understand the reasoning for this. Perhaps Evangelion could explain that one better.
Having said the above, I am sympathetic with the patch update idea, as I do patch updates with ToN and its nice and easy and quick. As I said, my only real concern with this is ppl reporting bugs due to missing an update and wasting Chyos's time. Maybe there could be an easy way to identify those bugs separately from other bugs, I don't know.
The point he made about ppl keeping all the 'updates' which in turn takes up more space on their hard drive is rather weak ... if I am at Version x.6.0 why on earth would I keep the x.4.0 or even the 0.5.x update .. if someone does that, that's his problem .. if anything using Evangelion logic, downloading 0.3.8.0 then downloading 0.3.8.5 then downloading 0.3.9.0 etc .. without clearing the old folder(s) (once you're sure the game actually works as intended) would take a whole lot more space.
With TON I did forget an update patch once, and after downloading the new patch and attempting to run the game it bugged out almost immediately .. it took me all of 2 seconds to realize what had happened, and I just downloaded the full version, and since then I am happily downloading the patches.
The point is .. Evangelion said patching in itself introduces bugs, the counterpoint I made is that
proper patching does NOT .. if there's a bug then the full version would have the same exact bug.
Anyway I am not going to keep arguing this point, I made a suggestion, and it's a very valid one, whether Chyos does decide to do it or not is up to him, but the counter arguments provided by evangelion are wrong, plain and simple, especially his assertion that patching per se introduces bugs, it does NOT. Now he's going on in a round about way still trying to argue it's a bad idea coz of disk space and some other stuff.
At least the point you mentioned about ppl missing a patch then reporting non existant bugs is valid, all the others are not. But there are many ways to quickly figure out if that's the case or not.