I am not really going to argu but I am designer my self and I think i can feel the dev, but I just want to clear some mindset ,
well the first is that Patreon if I am not wrong eats 30% of your income and if you are from america taxes are going to eat some amount of your money aswell.
so even if he is getting 20K at his best right now he is going to have almost 10k at the end now I don't know how he is going to share his money with his team but he is going to get more likely 3 or 5 k out of it.
now you mentioned why don't he stay at home and do it full time job .? well living as freelancer can be tricky and hard , if you are working at lets B or A plus game company , you have your career health insurance while living as freelancer you need to pay those things for your self,
I mean porn game industry really isn't acceptable by world community while game industry it self is, I mean do you know a family who sits and plays a porn game together ? but i can point out many families who play game with their children .
does Icstor can hire team ? yes he can , but does it worth it ? simply No... because his only source of money is patreon and Patreon doesn't give him much money ,
on top of that if he still making porn games as fulltime job he is not going to make much more because porn community is small
and most important reason is THE MINDEST , dev doesn't need to yell that I am making a porn game , but he has life right ? a family ? a kid ? so brutally honest , how do you see your self do you wanna be a guy who makes money out of everyone penises and be in silence for life time or you rather work in some companies where everything is settled you work your 8 hour time your insurance and everything is in placed. you have 40k$ computer with all equipment and if it something breaks they replaced it less than an hour you can meet some classy A rated actors and most importantly learn something new and create something that can be proud with your family for rest of your life
I hope you get the point there is no argu here , he can do it , he can deliver projects faster and other stuff but does it worth to quit his normal job and become freelancer designer just to satisfies your sexual needs ,
No.. it doesn't worth