>>241126
I don't think either of those things is true. There are cool little indie games being made for game jams and other reasons all the time, but the true problem that most artists face is being noticed in a sea of 24/7 garbage noise force fed to them through algorithms on every site they use. I've seen talented musicians with barely any views on their YT channels or Bandcamp profiles, as well as animators, writers, and visual artists. Even being a porn artist isn't a guarantee that anyone will care about what you make.
Ironically, I think it was perhaps easier to be noticed before or in the early days of the internet because all the ways people took in new information had a total stranglehold on it: if you were in a magazine, you existed, and if you weren't then you didn't; the magazines themselves were created and published by relatively small groups of real people whom it was possible to network with. Nowadays even people who get millions of human views can be ignored the next week and no-one is ever accountable.