Just as a quick response to your EDIT2, Twitch runs such a model where gamers and creative people have lots of people paying for otherwise free content. And it

Just as a quick response to your EDIT2, Twitch runs such a model where gamers and creative people have lots of people paying for otherwise free content. And it works really well. I think it'd be really cool if you dropped some of the defensiveness and used your position to help offer some suggestions to the problem. I know it's hard to see it from other angles that may not directly benefit you, but it'll help extend a resource that might disappear if people disagree with it hard enough en masse.