This attitude reminds of a particular 1850s-ish building in my area chock full of intricately hand-carved half-size wooden figurines. These were generated by true masters of their crafts. It’s obvious— work that only could be produced by a lifetime of devotion to a craft.

And the industry is gone. No one could produce figurines like that at any worldly price, probably for the last 100 years. The world is less for it, but it doesn’t matter, art follows different more efficient technologies and methods.

I sympathize with these artisans of the written word. But they’re all wrong, they’re dinosaurs who don’t know it. I myself was one, churning on high-value bespoke written work. The economic model is wrong, we’re the expert 1850s figurine crafters, adapt or … burn out I guess.