I think like many things it comes down to some amount of nuance which is always so easy to express online 😂 Platforms like Patreon seem to employ a mix of approaches, including paywalls and v4v. A big difference is that on Patreon it’s all controlled by them and the middleman payment services. I still contend that paywalls specifically don’t work for digital content, though, because if it’s good content then it’s going to be pirated and shared. And if it’s crappy content then it doesn’t need to be paywalled anyway. Lol