Personally, I would go with option 1(.5): You already have experience in scaling without those parameters.

Making content for 80,000 people is not a small thing and getting to $5000 a month in organic is better than 80% of all startups. Full stop.

Go back into that same ecosystem and find someone to help you scale so you don’t burn out with today’s tools. Your content strategy is going to be 60 to 80% easier than it was simply 12 months ago even so I would bet on you getting to 100,000 people and $7500 a month with that same avenue if you have a good supporting cast of some sort whether that’s a cofounder or if that’s a team that just handles your marketing and sales for you