I think you are getting stuck in dreamland instead of reality. Someone makes something good, and then someone who wants to make a buck ruins it. You are not constantly creating, you are bailing water out of a boat that has holes drilled in it constantly, and then you lose and then you die.
You need money to eat; there is nothing wrong with creating something amazing that also makes money :)
Tools are there to use to create, not to be worshipped. I understand the appeal; there is beauty in hand-crafting your paintbrush, gathering the pigment yourself, crushing it, and making the paint, but ultimately, most people want to paint.
I totally understand the appeal, though. It is easily to be seduced by the tool you are using.
I have no idea where you got this paint bullshit but it sounds like you were sniffing some. I'm talking about having to rebuild your digital house multiple times in your life because each time someone burnt it down for money. It's not Amish OR tool-worship to not want to rebuild a newsletter because Blogger, sorry Wordpress, oopsie Substack, shit the bed, just like it's not vehicle worship to not want to have to "upgrade" your car after three years because Tesla decided to remotely nuke cars older than a certain model year just for a fresh infusion of cash. Don't bother with another LSD-addled metaphor that has zero connection to the topic, which is enshittification, it's revolting to have even had this "conversation".
