I think this was a good and balanced take on the situation. Patreon giving their entire security team the axe without any notice should make anyone step back and rethink using their service.
Unless some major creators that use Patreon begin a very public exodus from the site, I'm not sure too many regular users are going to be leaving though. The blackmail risk of having your subscription history leaked won't even register for a lot of users.
> Patreon giving their entire security team the axe without any notice should make anyone step back and rethink using their service.
It's really hard to get people to take their monthly contributions to a Patreon competitor. The inertia is really hard to overcome. So in a sense its kind of like lock-in - if you move you'll give up some % of your income.
Unless some major creators that use Patreon begin a very public exodus from the site, I'm not sure too many regular users are going to be leaving though. The blackmail risk of having your subscription history leaked won't even register for a lot of users.