In my experience, people have done both art as a hobby and as a job. Burnout happens either way for a whole bunch of reasons unrelated to art.
End of day the economy is in a bad place because billionaires put us here and everyone is feeling it. Do what feels right.
it turns out that I actually care really deeply about the fact that oikawa's whole journey was NOT "he succeeded despite his lack of natural talent" but instead "he was able to unlearn the mental limits he put on himself based on the concept of natural talent"
gradient maps/curves/blending modes are easily some of the best parts of digital art (and what makes it such a unique medium) but its so fulfilling to learn how to color without them