Well when I joined several years ago only a few ppl had even pulled it off, so the expectation/motivation to attempt it was low. As more and more people did it, the points became more lucrative... eventually it became effectively required to complete. After the initial rush, people were just happy to get 140's...this was like 2 years ago. Now people are only happy with 130s, and will play long enough to get them. In this sense, people have grown more tolerant of Surface 2, or perhaps more "patient".
I'm sure you were dissecting the use of the word in the sense that a person's patience is an unchanging characteristic, or something as semantically trivial.
<3 word games with wouter, like old times