I'm not particularly upset, just somewhat baffled...

First I was never talking about musicians specifically, secondly modern (Patreon/etc.) style donation model is in my opinion overall much better that being dependent on a small number of rich donors. However that seems besides the point, authors/creators are free to chose how they distribute their content and what business model they want to adopt (obviously different models work better in different industries).

You are somehow implying that denying them that choice would improve something? Can you explain?

> like that's not the case today, which is either duplicitous or just naiive.

Really? Most successful authors are musicians are dependent on 1 or 2 individual patron? Not thousands or even millions of people willing to pay for their content (in some form)?