Not a patron, but we know exactly why the updates are taking longer - this is the biggest update for the game - both the Ellie/Julia and Yoga events are the biggest events in terms of renders so far. I'm not sure, but this update is probably bigger than even the demo.
If I've heard one complaint from members I believe are patrons recently it's that updates are slower because there's events with characters that no-one cares about, like Logan, Claire and Marie. The yoga event might have been made faster for example if they weren't talking to Claire and Marie, but it was just Sophia and Patricia.
Oh, and if you follow how the Development Progress has changed, the Rendered Scenes has followed Scene Creation fairly closely recently, as opposed to initially when L&P would create the scenes, and then render them. So in that regard he's actually faster, just with more renders some find useless.