I hope that the subscription/Patreon/Substack model for publishing wins out in the end, because it seems obvious that piracy is not really a sustainable solutio

I hope that the subscription/Patreon/Substack model for publishing wins out in the end, because it seems obvious that piracy is not really a sustainable solution if you want new books to continue to be published. For all of its downsides, the subscription model has two big benefits: more of the money goes to writers, not publishers, as in the current system; and it shifts publishing to an economic situation similar to open source, where writers are compensated for their opinions/services and not for an easily copyable (and DRM'able) product.