Patreon is a platform. Other companies are involved too in the handling of money etc + 90% (if not 99%) of their revenue is not from adult games. There are tons and tons of other non-adult-games project on Patreon from art to children literature. By not cleaning up and enforcing stricter rules they may be at risk of alienating a much bigger audience than us and drive away their business partners.I really don't understand why patreon is cracking down on incest in these games. Is it even illegal? I know incest between real people is illegal in most places. But there are a lot of examples of incest between imaginary people in other forms of media like books, movies, and tv shows. Patreon even used Game of Thrones as an example of what they think is acceptable incest. So why would imaginary incest be legal in other forms of media, but in a game it is illegal.
Frankly, it wouldn't be inconceivable if Patreon said within the year "no adult content, including partial full frontal nudity" etc. I don't think they do those rules to be jerks. They do them because their business partners (including bigger names than our game developers) want them.
What they did because they were jerks were the 0.4$ per pledge crap. THAT was probably a decision by them to get more money.