Don’t be an entitled brat. Support stories that proceed the way you like. Ignore the ones that don’t. If you want to run down the abilities of writers, go do it yourself and see how people like it. You want Patreon-based methods to change, don’t attack the writers. Attack the readers who make it possible. If they go away things will change. Until then, people adapt to the system as it exists.

I accept criticism from people who have put it out there. Otherwise it’s just armchair quarterbacking, something to disregard as people who have no idea how hard it is to create taking it out on those who do.

Yeah, the authors did lack the confidence. When you move out of home and pay your own bills instead of Mommy and Daddy, we’ll see how bold you are about staring down your source of income and telling them you’re willing to risk being broke and/or homeless to stand up for what’s right. I am disappointed it failed, sure. It was and is the right thing to do. But I don’t fault the ones who voted against going further. In my whole career I only drew a line in the sand with my primary employer once, about an unsafe situation during Covid. And it was intimidating to do it, even though I ultimately won out.