On what ground? You can pretend that this bs rules will help with pedophile and what not but this is an erotic visual novel game, not real life. And Alice has been part of the story for almost the entirety of the development from the start.
Maybe if you didn't skip every dialog and actually read them, you'll understand what I mean.
And the problem wasn't only just minor characters too, if you can read, there's policy conflict with engines that they don't allow which means the creator need to redo everything from the start.
Years of progress unmade.
Money wasted.
And the story will be forced into something else to abide bs rules that doesn't involves with what the developer envisions to be made.
Why do you people have to make big deals out of nothing? "make money by feeding the rotten part of societies (ped0s)"? What does that have to do with us? Are you saying everyone that supported the game are suddenly pedos? Are we all going to jail? If not then why suddenly there is a problem?
This gray area of "Oh! Maybe this is 0.000000000000001% of the reason why pedos existed" is so fucking vague it looks ridiculous to me. This may as well be the reason for global warming, or might as well serial murder, racism, and all bullshit in the world you can imagine.
Who are you to decide that we are not the victim when devs were pushed into an ultimatum of either destroying what they want to create, or create something they didn't want.
"Don't victimize yourself, edit the game, remove the minor ones and go back to Patreon, everything will go back to normal." People like you are the reason why SBI existed. How many masterpieces will you have to force inject your ideology into and ruin until you're satisfied?
I don't know what is going with American politics, and I don't even want to know. If Patreon decides it is in their best interest to apply this rules then it's their choice.
But if they don't respect artist works on their platform, I don't think they deserved any artist at all.