Love the game, hate the business model.
I would find it okay if there would be more regular updates, but being able to pay one time 1$ on Patreon and have a newer version for multiple months - and then the same version for another few months leaves a sour taste in my mouth.
Assuming I pay you 4 times on Patreon I paid the same amount of money I would've paid you for the single purchase. Looking at the dev log that would be 2 years worth of content. So only after that buying the game would be the better decision - and this also assumes that you always would want at least content parity with the people who buy it here. If you skip a few updates because you don't feel like playing it atm - pretty realistic scenario that that happens over the course of two years - then you might skip a few updates and that stretches it out even further.
And all that ASSUMES that this game is in development for that long. Should it be done anytime sooner the people who paid got an even worse deal as it actually never paid off.
I really like the game, but giving Patreon new content first with the current update speed just doesn't seem fair to paying users on other platforms.