Yeah, and screwing us over like second rate citizens/patreons , and for what so he can make a quick $ on steam, and we as patreons need a manual to install the next update, while steam get all his support ( me soon to be X patreon )
Would you rather not have a manual? I don't understand your point. The patch is fairly simple (duh! It is just a copy+paste of files you downloaded). But even then, he made a video explaining how it is done. For steam, the updates are automatic because the steam client takes care of updates/patches. That is just how things work.
I would prefer if he got himself a play test team together so public releases would be actual game content rather than fixing stuff that was broken on download. This is not a small file to download and I for one don't like downloading huge files just to play something that should have worked.
He already has a team of beta testers, FYI. And I appreciate them for the work they do. The amount of bugs in this game is extremely low. As someone who has been programming for a while now, I assure you that bug finding is not a simple task especially when the project is as large as this one. Even after spending several hours trying to perfect the game, some bugs still creep in. We humans have the tendency to oversee stuff.
About the patch, you were never asked to download the full game again. You only need to download the latest patch, which is just above 20MB for v0.4.2