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> that the community is failing to give the people joining it the tools they need to succeed

I don't understand this. The tools are out there and available to everyone. It's education and getting skills. The rest is luck. If you want to create a product, you need to have the skills to do so.

Sometimes, it feels like people expect entrepreneurship or making money from a project to actually be easy. It's more like the NBA:

You either bring the skills, get lucky, and start early enough or it's not for you.

But the OP clearly fell for an easy money scheme. Somewhere in her blog she even writes about the absurdity:

"So how do you make money if you can't or don't want to make a project on your own?" -> This is so utterly silly, it hurts.