Agreed.

I think the response here was a response to a number of things:

• I have tried to get people to collaborate with me unsuccessfully for multiple years. People haven't been interested and I have barely made it through those years, failing, and trying things. etc.
• As someone who was an artist who focused on hunting freelance work, these sorts of people, basically unwittingly looking for free artwork for their passion project, kind of irritate me. It's not really their fault, they just don't have experience integrating their plans / projects with an actual market.
• Attracting allies is really important, and it's also really hard -- because there's not a lot of money in independent creative projects, and everyone has bills to pay, and beyond that, people may not be passionate about the same ideas, or may not be experienced enough to make things work along with you - etc.

I think the best way to get allies is to have a small collective of solo operators who have the experience of getting small things shipped.

An example for comics would be a small group of people who have failed and done monthly comics, and found some success and built an audience over like 1-2 years.

If I had an opportunity to work with someone like that, I would jump on it for a collaboration, because I know they are not just speculative, and I know that they have the sort of experience needed and I know they have built an audience, and they know how to execute projects, and they have the basics of crowdfunding taken care of -- etc.

There are so many little things that are just taken care of when you have that small amount of experience, and I think that allies sharing that level of experience could make really powerful projects.

But what I've found is that there is a LOT of resistance to actually doing the work needed to make these projects a reality, which is why people with 1-2 years of indie project experience in a relevant field are rare.