The issue is patreon is bigger. Unless you care more about your vision than some creds, people will just censor themselves.
Honestly, I'm tired of people rolling out the "it's Patreon's fault excuse."
Patreon's rules were a problem for devs for like the first two months after they started implementing them.
Yes, there was a second sweep where they went after some of the less intelligent approaches, but apart from that tons of successful games have worked their way around the Patreon rules for years.
Patches by evil modders, setting your relationships in game, extra-editions released on other sites etc..
The games who actually changed their content and/or have no patches have no real excuse, apart from either laziness or not giving a fuck.
There was content Braindrop clearly hinted at, then never delivered on, his white knights bend themselves backwards 180° degrees to claim it was never intended to be in the game, while the rest of us are laughing our asses off, over these silly attempts at deflection.
This isn't directed at you personally, it was just the latest post reminding me of that tired defence.
And honestly, it is just one of many reasons to be disappointed with this game, the teasing, the speed of progress both in story and game development, the weak writing, the story, the godforsaken duck faces all girls have, including some so extreme it borders on deformities.
I'm just glad that people finally seem to wake up to things being wrong with WVM.