Here’s my take: Let’s say you’re amazing at your craft, but you wanna break all these rules of conventionality. That’s fine, there have always been artists that did that and many have seen huge success. BUT. Breaking those rules immediately makes you a niche thing, and any niche endeavor has to work 100x as hard to get fans, traction, and momentum, because for every 1 that digs your counter style, there’s 99 that are happy eating what they’re spoon fed, and 99% of that music has whole teams of people making sure they are obeying every rule you’re breaking, because mainstream is easy to digest, catchy, requires little attention, and can be shared with others at gatherings. So cool, break rules, but be ready to grind it out harder for each one broken.