As you see i am not mentioned DC personally, but some of his newer "fans". Game is great even in current state, but i don't think team seriously considered all the options back then, and keep tracking them now. Look at Animo. He takes all the risk and PayPal cartel still dreaming about destroying SubStar and other Patreon alternatives, but he seems doing great. DC team choose the safe way, which is my main complain about any creator since last year purges. Not saying they are collaborationists, but have doubts about SS future.
Honestly DC throwing his lot with patreon only is an awful idea, what will he do if they suddenly ban porn at large ? because we know they are already very much against it, they already said patreon wasn't a plateform for porn (you're a fucking middleman, patreon, not a plateform, don't get too big for your breeches).
Nothing say he'll be able to reform a community of backers in a reasonable time frame if he jump to another site only after Patreon 100% kicked him out, it's not even like you can only be on one backing site at a time, he has no reason to not have a subcribe star or something like that in addition to the patreon.
Also yup for the cuck thing, i'v already seen a game or two get turned into cuckshit nonsense because an influx 1 dollar patreon who kept whinning and skewing the polls after they were modified to include what they wanted, result was that the game's community at large dropped them and their patreon stopped growing.
Don't throw your old fanbase under the bus cause you've had an influx of casuals, the old fanbase is the only reason the casuals noticed you to begin with.