^ This comment summarizes my feelings pretty well. The pacing that bothers me the most, much more than premium episodes needing to keep each 70 panel episode exciting, are indie series that are paced like they're a comic issue or manga chapter... but then uploaded piecemeal over the course of several months.
Usually the first big hook or reveal is placed at the middle or end of the first issue/chapter, with some slower build up and on-boarding leading up to that point. That's great if a reader's first impression is the whole first issue/chapter, but if you're uploading 1 page at a time and the first interesting event or hook is 3 months away, I'm not likely to subscribe or come back. In this day and age there are just too many entertainment options available to spend months waiting for something to get good :X
But that leaves people between a rock and a hard place, because then you either need to:
A.) increase pacing to make it more engaging,
B.) Spend more time making longer episodes, but then upload less often as a result, or
C.) both
There's no winning, although every option at least does have pros and cons associated.
My first comic went with route A, I did 1-2 page uploads but I led with a longer than usual first episode to hopefully hook readers with an entire scene, and then afterwards tried to include "page turners" maybe not every single episode, but at least have something of note happen on each 1-2 pages.
I thought it worked pretty well, but as a reader I'm not super fond of short updates like that, so for my next comic I'm doing kind of a B/C hybrid. Longer episodes, and not with faster pacing, necessarily, but that isn't fully chronological and only hits the "best of" moments in the story. It's action/comedy based so I think it'll work out relatively okay, but time shall tell I'm def more worried about the monthly uploads than the pacing tbh.