It's easy to draw lines to other industries from this too, mainly to music one. The mainstream does not produce or provide to those that would rather do somethi

It's easy to draw lines to other industries from this too, mainly to music one. The mainstream does not produce or provide to those that would rather do something more interesting or niche, unless the niche becomes popular enough that the mainstream wants to usurp it, thus killing the original interesting ideas in the first place (see: corporations and their pseudo-"open" source projects for example). At the same time there's a race of who can sell out the fastest, turning their ideas into corporations and playing the mainstreams game or (most likely) fail trying. Luckily there's always those that choose otherwise and I'll always have more respect the anime avatar person with a nickname that chooses to spend their time on something like improving Atari Jaguar emulators than the "indie hacker" who sold their email marketing scheme to Google for 10 million bucks.