Content creators for the most part are just walking billboards, they have to be for it to make sense for them, if they're not shilling products or ads on their audience the model makes no sense for them to do.

With audience funding you get to focus on the content itself, to provide a good product to the paying customer, not thinking about how you can extend your views to sell more ad space

With audience funding you also get instant feedback on what is good or bad so you can learn from it and you also can focus on a core set of people and not try to be a mainstream cardboard cut out