/me looks at my Patreon bill

Yeah, no. The problem is Sturgeon's Law: 90% of everything is garbage, and people don't like to pay for something that is mostly garbage.

If there are no free services subsidized by google or other tech corp, then they will have to pay or shut up.

> People aren't willing to pay much for non-physical goods anymore.

Anecdotal

And guess who's fault is that ?