I've never in my years alive on this earth have I seen a patreon or any artist in fact, take that much money? in that many years, to deliver a unnecessary CGI rendered castle no one asked for lol. What the hell was wrong with the original castle everyone was content with lol. * Un-subscribed immediately *
I was active in the forums when G4E 1 was released and up until DLC2. Also went with the Patreon account for about 6 months before I realised Miro was finished as a creator and cancelled, deciding to wait on the sideline and see what he came up with.
IMO, the feedback, fame and fortune went to his head, and his deep-diving into fan suggestions, polls, the technical side of websites, shops, rendering, etc. became an excuse early on, because he couldn't decide what to do next to top G4E. Too much FFF can do that to an artist and I've seen it before, and I think we're witnessing it with some other mega-popular artists in this forum.
One extremely interesting fact: I was going through my Miro collection the other day and remembered... he created almost everything (GFE at least) in POSER! That's mind-blowing tbh. Considering the tools and computing power available today. I can only think that it was also very painful in a masochistic way.
Just a last note and opinion, I also think he became impotent in real life, and hated working with his dream lovers, because he couldn't enjoy sex with or without them in real life. Basically developed a psychosis, which to be fair, was (is?) something I don't wish upon anyone. Regardless of their mistakes around production and money.
Edited to add: the impotence theory is the reason behind him designing stupendously ornate castles, rather than animating his dream lovers.