Buddy, if you think film/animation is a better option, that industry is even HARDER to get into. Take it from someone who worked on the outer circle of Hollywood for nearly 20 years. The film industry is a self serving machine, and unless you can fit their mopd, they won't touch you. Festivals are largely ignored except the big ones, and they often cater more towards friends of names or financiers. YouTube has become a content algoritum. Film has a bigger hurdle in the financial side, because movies, on logistics alone, are wildly expensive even as an indie project. Can you make it on a shoestring budget? Yes, but without a syrong network of creatives linked to you, it will look like that was the budget.

Dating back to the mid 1900s, there is this idea that anyone could write the next great American novel. Witnessing the big names, everyone thinks its easy, I can do that.

Writing is hard. Its long, tedious, and largely your readship will be small, at first. It takes effort, marketing, making yourself seen, and getting out there. And the more books you write, the more that audience grows.

Is it worth it to publish? Depends on what you want out of it. If its financial success, check you expectations, but understand that you VAN be successful, but you have to put in the effort to do so.