We can't seem to get a large hobby site that isn't monetized in some way. It'd be one thing if folks had the time, resources, and space to just put stuff out in the world but not everyone can afford to. Because of the constraints of the current economic system, folks who don't have some sort of fallback are forced to compete over very little just to get by. There's nothing stopping some large, already wealthy company from creating or even funding content spammers, whether they use AI or not, to flood the space to eliminate competition from indies. They could weather the onslaught but small time game creators would have to fold, unable to pay their bills because their products are mostly getting buried under an avalanche of slush.
I have no problem putting out the casual, lower quality games that I do because I THOUGHT it was no big deal, that this was basically a hobbyist site. Honestly wondering if I should leave though, if I'm not contributing to the slush flow.