This; but it disappoints me that the market is so winner-takes-all (skewed towards the top). I wish — for artistic reasons, not socialistic ones — that the money that is making a few companies very profitable were instead making 10x as many companies survivable.
Ten years ago we were promised that personalized recommendations and discoverability of the long tail would make this happen, and we're still waiting.
The expansion of the long tail has happened. However, global emancipation of internet access, software markets and programming literacy has also happened. So there are now way more people making a dime doing indie games (or youtube content, or selling weird long-tail diy stuff on ebay) - but a good majority of them will hail from China or south east Asia or Eastern Europe...
Ten years ago we were promised that personalized recommendations and discoverability of the long tail would make this happen, and we're still waiting.