More like <300 people. When more than 28,000 people are paid subscribers, who should care what a couple of hundred free players think?
Also, I'm a free player, and we already know there's a lot of people who don't care what I think. So, it's not hard to imagine.
Yes, the monthly status reports are posted for paid subscribers only. Thankfully, one paying subscriber,
Hero1, shares those monthly status reports in this thread (you can see links to them all at #10 in my FAQ here:
#74,628). It's more than the status bars found on the game's website, including their reason why the progress percentage appeared to decrease. They also share any other posts, art, etc from the patreon posts.
Another paying subscriber,
Username7, shares in this thread the tasks lists that are posted for paid subscribers to see what is still left to work on.
it's elitist BS for a game that looks like a 13 year old has drawn it.
Here's some art you might find better.