Yeah no. LOL. They 100 fucking percent should have stopped the Patreon.
For comparison, one of the best devs on this site, belle, who made the legendary Long Live the Princess game, recently encountered a burnout situation on a new title he is working on. You know what he did? He said guys, I am not going to be able to work on the game, if I try to push through I will harm my health, so I am taking a break for the month. And he paused his fucking Patreon. Then true to his word, he came back and resumed work, and restarted the Patreon.
And, that was just for a damn month!
It's called not being a freeloader.
But the devs of WAL and HH and plenty of other titles on this site, just regularly make bullshit excuses and fall off the face of the earth for months to years at a time and just continue to collect Patreon welfare checks from their delusional fans the whole time. It's disgusting.