Well it's been a day and it seems it's not a panic induced hallucination, Patreon have backtracked and cancelled their planned changes to the pledge fees system!
https://blog.patreon.com/not-rolling-out-fees-change/
This is very good news, if a bit surprising, it's not often that you see a big company turn around a decision which would help them make a bunch of money, just because it was incredibly unpopular with their userbase.
Still it's very welcome all the same. As I understand it they are still looking to make changes but in a different way, and working with the Creators and Patrons to minimise disruption.
So that's that, good news all round, which is very welcome right now, I hope you guys are all doing well, now I can get back to important stuff, like making more images and comics :D