Do you realize the motivation behind that work? It's not Recognition even. It's certainly not money.
Do you know how much art is created and posted for free, to deviantart?
Do you realize how many tutorials, guides etc exist, for free?You think that people are doing that because they want money? They hardly care for recognition even, many do it for something else than "thumbs up".
You imagine things that have not manifested despite the fact that there's a plethora of ways to patron those people. What happens when the people who did it for free get paid? Do you really think that money means they will pump out more, or less? Would it be hard to imagine that its usually less?
You know what motivated people more than money?
https://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow.html
Remember, this entire conversation, your entire " thought" is penchant on endeavors which can only be expressed best not by any financial, or social motives or driven by those incentives, but by something that supersedes those desires of recognition or material gain. You don't make art especially, much like Video Games, because you want money, etc, you may call it art, but it won't have that obsessive passion to perfect it, it will certainly lack the genuine character of a masterpiece, if its not for the love of the craft.