Yeah you're definitely right - and not being on a label means you wouldn't know what to pander to even if you wanted to, so you're in the most raw stage of creativity.

Bon Iver's early stuff feels so raw in that way. The album 'For Emma, Forever Ago' I believe he literally took a guitar and a laptop to some hut in the middle of a snowy mountain or something and just recorded everything there, not an autotune for hundreds of miles.

The flawed recordings just really do something for me. I even have a playlist specifically for non-autotuned music cuz it's just... better to experience the real musician.

As a first responder

Being the solution is definitely a rough way to live life, especially if you don't take care of yourself when you're off duty. Hard for somebody like me to even imagine, to be honest. Maybe it's wiser, in your case, to put on the Bieber and Sheeran to remind yourself that everything is meaningless =D