Echoing @kbra:
i think this late-night rant leans strongly on a misinterpretation of Namelessness so I've spoilered it
If anything, namelessness for me personally has much to do with my own allergy to getting good at self-promotion, networking, and marketing a personal brand (ugh). Facing down a youthful bitterness borne out of a failure to comprehend doors despite my talents and/or privileges (the ones I visibly have and invisibly do not have), anonymity or pseudonymity offered an alternative that felt kinder on my young ego than having one’s art and entire identity either rejected wholesale or ignored completely.
It’s not a recipe for professional success alone, talent is necessary but insufficient - try adding the right mix or being friendly, confident, having a great work ethic, and sprinkle in some generational wealth and “the right school” if you can swing it - but it did wonders for my own mental health and general positive feelings towards my own art. I found it a much nicer alternative than a pursuit which was driving me to frustration, despair, cynicism and depression; none of those are particularly congruent with sustainable success, artistic or professional or otherwise. If I can’t have been born or raised with the good attributes, I can at least try to actively avoid the bad.
Not sure if that ramble makes sense but, if not, I feel you and have some strong and generally sympathetic feelings about your points.
