Not sure I follow the logic here. I got what you said when you observed there has been a concerted attack on creative work, but I think you might be missing what is really responsible for the attack.
Not your fault, to me this is a common error, due to commodification of education, we are categorised into specialists, becoming any one of artists, techies, social scientists, economists, etc. This kind of limits our natural ability to see systemically, unless we might be lucky enough (or cursed!), to receive formal tools and training to do it.
On one hand, you see your work as creation, but on the other it looks like you don't value the work done on, or creation of the internet.
To me as always a techie, the internet has huge creative value, but so does art, performative or otherwise.
We can never have enough creation surely, creation breeds yet more creation.
You seem critical of abundance, maybe seeing the ability to withold your work for a decent return on it as being something desirable.
Logically if we are truly creative, and have truly found our outlet, there is no end to it, we would do it for nothing just for our own amusement, if it was something we really loved to do,, if we somehow were assured we would not be penalised financially for doing just that.
The trouble is as things stand, we are penalised for that, hence why we see so few doing it, and this results in a reduction of high quality creative output, surely.
I write as a Systems Engineer why that is not physically necessary, it is something imposed by the system which is all for profit.
That same system is what ties us into mathematically unsustainable energy, to the point that continued use of it is dangerously heating the planet.
The end result of the system analysis shows the root culprit of all the problems to be profit.
This turns out to be an energy con, done with the planet as victim.
Money makes money, in an environment where we can and do as, standard, enforce scarcity of both money and energy, money is energy.
Yet money miraculously makes more money, ta-da, but we ignored the increased energy came ripped off from the planet, with subsequent temperature impact just by E=MC squared, and not only was the planet robbed but so was everyone else in every profitable supply chain, except the one pocketing the most energy at the top.
So here we are on the doorstep of existentially threatening disaster, due to our ability to keep doing the rip-off of profit, finally running out of it, ta-da, nature is calling time up on it.
If we are brutally honest, we have to say that we never did create as a species in for-profit mode, all we ever did was actually net destruction, we removed far more from Earth than we added to it.
So the solution is to stop trying to enforce scarcity, use the energy that comes for nothing, the energy which is abundant, the energy that nature uses to create, to start creating.
We start by issuing money reflecting and valuing what truly is creation rather than what is destruction, the economic product already created from use of solar energy to date.
This has never been monetised because it can't be monetised by money for which any return is asked or expected, since the sun never asked anything in return for the energy it emitted to us.
Reception of that money would remove your financial insecurity forever, unconditionally.
It will do this for all artists and all creators, freeing us all up to choose whether we want to continue doing what we used to do, for money.
I said "will" rather than "would" there because this is a certainty, nature is giving us no choice other than take it or leave it.
Choosing not to take it is choosing extinction, which actually isn't an option, if we are honest, I think.
I think the quality of art, and actually all creation we will see in that new world is beyond most of our imaginations.
How can abundance be thought of as a bad thing, if we are truly creative?
