honestly it isn't that bad a thing that you split it like that, it's the updating all your places that gets ya. I've seen so many that flat out forget their itchio and only focus patreon which causes a good chunk of the players to think it's dead (easiest example is What A Legend). We can always wait, we play for free anyways. But keeping the free players updated keeps them around ;)
(Personally I only started it yesterday, and I've been enjoying it a lot lol glad to see the dec responding to replies too)