Yes. The crux of your argument is that it's a publicity stunt. I was just pointing out that the subscription offering isn't new.
Leaving Patreon is absolutely a sacrifice.
An average person would see a pretty significant cut in revenue by switching from Patreon to a self-hosted setup even if they kept every single patron because of transaction consolidation and hosting/maintaining/securing a site to host a payment processing API.
Harris already has the website, so it's largely a fixed cost on the hosting/maintaining/securing side and he's really only losi