Based on personal experience, I strongly suspect there is a market for that type of middle ground. Also, the author of the top level comment in this subthread s

Based on personal experience, I strongly suspect there is a market for that type of middle ground. Also, the author of the top level comment in this subthread said they are doing commercial consulting work, so that shows there is some market for it. Given, he/she did not say how good business was, where/how/if they find customers, if they are profitable, etc.