A good observation. If you are the creator trying to please one of your ten very wealthy super-patrons, have eyes on the back of your head because there will be

A good observation. If you are the creator trying to please one of your ten very wealthy super-patrons, have eyes on the back of your head because there will be thousands of people, some of 'em better than you, who will want to win away your patron's custom. You're probably not special enough to hang on to your ultra-wealthy super-patron. There will be someone younger and cuter who'll come along and take 'em from you. Metaphorically, if not literally. And if you've devoted your life to trying to be their ultimate creator, and they leave, then you don't have much of a fall-back position. You've specialized around something that has been taken away. Your branding, your identity, is 'super-patron's ideal artist' and that's no longer true. Nasty.