I'm not a coder but now work way faster than the coder I pay, stuff breaks but it's tenable and it's easier to get things to completion as the harnesses get better.
Don't give up just keep trying you can truly build personally life changing things. Don't look at it purely from a how do I sell this lense, just empower yourself with these tools while the getting is good
I hear you there.... too many years on my side paying over priced tools for the agencies, I'm well normalized on monthly subs and you can't compare these things to what we used to pay for. I've dropped 90% of the tools I used to sub to. But like others downstream have said no ones ever going to pay 500 to 1000 month open source models will just eat that margin up and flip the economics so ads it is lol.
Don't give up just keep trying you can truly build personally life changing things. Don't look at it purely from a how do I sell this lense, just empower yourself with these tools while the getting is good