I think everything is banal if you can't publish something that at least makes you feel good and leaves you with a clear conscience. I think the greatest achievement of a community like this is having the opportunity to have people who share our tastes and projects, and to achieve relationships of true friendship and respect. Money should come as a consequence of personal growth. Achievement for so much effort. But it should come without the constraints of selling your soul.
But in the Lord's vineyard... and since we have everything, we have little white-gloved thieves. Refined, trained. They care little for art. The content that generally gets voted on is laughable. Do they think we don't know what a good text is?
The world seems to remain this way. I think your response echoes the fact that you can be free. I admire that you continue to invest in art and those who create it.