The last point you made quoting Roy from Breez is Adam’s thesis and he’s the originator of the whole thing so it would be worth consuming some more of his ideas about it.

I’d also point out that your examples of things like podcast overheads don’t consider the the first part of the V4V equation - there is a shitton of content out there, do you really have something valuable enough to say to warrant the overheads? Because most people do not so are they aren’t producing enough value to warrant sufficient value in return to make these things anything more than a hobby.