As a creator it sucks too. I manage a small patreon page for a Discord bot and every time I edit our page I have to relearn how to use the interface. Every time I want to make a post I forget how to...make a post? How in god's name is it possible to make an interface so bad that one has to remember how to make a post? It's completely unintuitive. This is not something that should be difficult lol. (The part I forget is adding alt text to images, although I think there might be other parts I forget too. I don't post that often, it's a small page for a side project.)
Discord is slowly rolling out a premium service, and I think that will be a HUGE blow to Patreon. Creators already put Discord rewards into their Patreons, they already have Discord servers, their fans are already in Discord, having the payment processing go through Discord just streamlines the process; plus, a lot of people will have CC details saved in Discord due to Nitro.
Right now afaik it's only available for select partnered creators, but I hope the end goal is to make it available for any server that wants it, and truly compete with Patreon that way. We will certainly accept pledges that way. It'll be a huge hassle cos no one will want to cancel Patreon so creators will have to do updates in two places etc but I imagine most people will want to move to Discord.
Lots of YouTubers are flocking to SubscribeStar. I haven't pledged anything on there, just 2-3 Patreons, but I've noticed it in several channels I follow.
