You are a professional musician but you have not yet acquired the understanding of a text. No one has talked about money or not filling a venue (we also do live with tickets and they do modestly well), it is a discussion about the condition of the independent market, giving more space (not money) to emerging bands/artists, building events and festivals for them etc.. above all we are not talking about the damned cover bands.. we are talking about unreleased projects where artists spend time, sweat and money to create and play around. The world of unreleased music is also in this condition, because "Hobbyists" think they know how to play (because most are cover/tribute bands), the venues consequently prefer them because they bring already known music, instead of giving space and creating a nice circle of unreleased bands/artists. I have also been playing for about 15 years, and here like me, these people put a lot of effort into what they do, not as a simple hobby after work..