I get that. I work ten hours a week or so for free on my open source passion projects. If that turned in to an extra $200 a week that would be cool - I’m doing the work anyway.
I haven’t read the article yet but my only fear with crowd funding is what happens when I want to take a month off of technical work.
As someone who supports several developers, I hope you take as much holiday as you need. I mostly support it to increase the chance of the project surviving in the long term, and as a token of appreciation of your past contributions.
You can pause patreon campaigns. If you're open about your work life balance and how you need to take a month off from the project I think most people will understand that.
I haven’t read the article yet but my only fear with crowd funding is what happens when I want to take a month off of technical work.