Thanks for sharing this. I would consider supporting them once in a while but it's unreasonable in the current situation. You either pay $10 but wait over a year to receive the rewards and have no idea what the images will actually look like. Or you pay $35 if you want it after seeing the image previews but didn't subscribe to them 1+ years ago on that particular month.
I think this is just an unwinnable situation. They'd been falling behind on rewards after the first few months (early-mid 2020 or about), but I believe this actually is their livelyhood, so they can't just pause patronage to catch up, but there's also an unwavering obligation to meet each month's reward regardless of how far behind they fall, particularly with fan patron poll content and that big $150 commish tier that hasn't popped up in years.
I wish they'd just hit the reset button and start from present. I think the positive reception would be much greater than the possible backlash.