You're literally living the Millenial "dream" (quotation marks because reality isn't just writing with a margarita on a beach), so of course people try to justify their own actions and being stuck in whatever they are without having the guts to jump into uncertainty and pull it off the way you did.
I’ve heard that these days when kids are asked what they wanna be when they grow up, they say blogger/youtuber/instafamous, which is pretty crazy. But it’s easy to see only the good sides of something like this.
Yeah, nobody thinks about the potential loss of privacy, harassers and stalkers that can come with Insta/Youtube fame.