The thing is, a bunch of those options arose well after I began to surmise that Patreon was struggling with the implementation necessary for the by work model. Patreon had done a number of things that seem to be deprecating the by-work model, most obviously their tearing out the part of the UI that by-works creators relied on, which suggested to me they repented of the decision to ever have it in the first place, given its complexity and difficulty to support in the code.