“~14-17%. This is too high for a platform essentially only acting as a middle manager for supporting recurring payments.” Patreon is not just asking this fee,

“~14-17%. This is too high for a platform essentially only acting as a middle manager for supporting recurring payments.” Patreon is not just asking this fee, because it’s middle men for recurring payments. If that was the case, you could use Stripe for your payment. You could easily cut these fees by providing donors a stripe link. I guess the writer wouldn’t do that, because there is value in the donation platform. Argumentation is not grounded. If we compare the case with Between Epic games and Apple, where Apple was forcing high % for literally payments which could be done much cheaper at any other payment provider.