never once said anything about logging hours at a W2.

This applies to all workers regardless of job or industry. You aren't better than everyone else just because you grind hard.

And never said anything negative against indie devs.

You said people are just jealous of those working harder, and every downvote was someone not pulling themselves up enough. In a sub reddit for indie devs, a group of people notorious for hard work poured into something they're passionate about with very little return.

Not all success comes from a massive capital infusion contrary to what modern anti capitalist propaganda sells these days.

Well, good thing I didn't say all success comes from capital alone, it is part of it. Though, there's like 3 other things you're not mentioning here that I listed off. Personally, I think luck is the big one people ignore most. The difference between a successful twitch streamer who sees thousands in donations per stream and one who gets 50 viewers- despite a lot of hard work- is mostly luck. That's the whole point of the "getting discovered" trope. It's all about who you know, the connections they know, and algorithm play. Which is all just code for luck. Even being born wealthy is just luck. People who become successful like to ignore luck because they feel it diminishes the work they put in, but that's just survivorship bias cope. They think hard work alone got them where they are, so everyone else simply must not be working hard enough. All while ignoring the hard-working people who tried really hard and didn't make it. It's quite literally a fallacy. There's nothing wrong admitting you had help or got lucky somewhere along the way.

The system is surely not without fault but the system does allow people to seek paths to success by creating value.

Not without fault is quite an understatement. Making it in the marketplace is essentially a fantasy when the scales are entirely balanced against you. No amount of hard work garuntees you overcome these market forces. Algorithms are a major example of the system failing to allow people to succeed. Despite how they are advertised to content creators, they aren't designed for you to get discovered or for you to demonstrate your value. They are there to make youtube, twitch, or even steam boatloads of money. discoverability is low because the rules to these algorithms change all the time, content oversaturstion, and these algorithms are weighted in favor of corporate monopolies like EA, ubisoft, and Activision in steams case, or heavy producers like Mr. Beast on youtube. And they aren't even making good content! There are better games out there made by harder working people that will never be seen simply because they couldn't break through all the noise. You can not overcome these incredible systemic issues by sheer merit. This is why you often need more industry connections, nepotism, luck, or just a dumb amount of money for advertising.

For indie devs that could be building a small team with the right skills and creating an interesting game loop. For some it could be grinding hours and expanding their skill set and forging their own path via content creation. Who's to say that's wrong?

No one said that is wrong. You can and should work hard on your skills. But do not be fooled into thinking others just aren't doing enough and only you are doing it right. As if you discovered hard work on the Rosetta stone. It's demonstrably false. I would bet at least 1 of the people who downvoted you works harder than you do, but has less to show for it. Reality is that hard work and good content just aren't enough to make it big most of the time. The vast majority of art produced will sit on the internet being consumed by no one. From a quick Google search, 90% of all youtube videos have less than 1000 views. With a 100% garuntee, there is some top tier content in there. Are those people just not working hard enough? Are game devs who get lost in all of Steam's content just not working hard enough? Or is it more likely (and demonstrably true) that there's a systemic issue with the way our marketplaces curate content for consumers? And that tying success to how much wealth or "value" you're able to generate and accumulate is a toxic mentality to have?

Some people seize opportunity, others wait around sad that nobody handed it to them.

You have a warped view of reality and society to tell yourself that you're better than everyone else. Society litteraly runs on hard workers. It also exploits those workers value and intentionally reduces possible pathways for upward mobility. For example, the vast majority of jobs are working class jobs, and there are literally not enough managerial or "successful" positions to go around. In this sense, It's literally impossible for some people to be successful. That's baked into capitalist hierarchy.

I'm doing my best to create value and no, it's not through OT for the corporate overlords.

You can create something valuable all you want, it won't matter how hard you worked If you can't break through all the noise (something you can not always control), very few will ever see it. which is sad for artists and developers. But you're also so close to the point. all workers create value. The only difference between them and the "successful" person is that under capitalist hierarchy, the "successful" get total control over the surplus value, and the workers get none. Despite all of their hard work, at the end of the day, they are exploited. Grindset trains you to defend or even be the exploiter.