I've sent donations (e.g. $25-$100 via papyal) to open source and technical folks and only once received a reply (thank you) back.
I suppose it shouldn't disappoint me, but it does and thus I'm much less likely to bother.
But I _very_ carefully don't put extra time into doing Patron-only stuff.
The core purpose of the Patreon for us, is to gather funds so we can improve things for the project. eg buy new equipment (HiDPI monitor purchased, ARM64 based Mac Mini coming up, etc).
So, putting time into making the project better is much better than putting time into doing "Patreon only" things. eg "private blog posts" etc.
From my personal point of view, if someone becomes a Patron to our open source project with the expectation they'll receive some huge extra level of effort... they're probably better off not becoming a Patron.
But if they're ok with just the acknowledgement/thanks and knowing they're helping out with an important aspect of things that no-one else is, then that's all good. :)
Normally, if I send anything like $50-$100 to a creator via any of the "normal" mechanisms for this (Patreon, Venmo, Zelle), I get a very nice response.
Those thank-you notes matter, even if fundamentally the reason for giving is completely based on the actual work.
I'll just remove the link, thanks for letting me know.