@sun We only see successful cases of working for oneself. John Carmack, Ian McCollum. BTW, both of them received a significant support from their wives. But the only guy doing this, Michael Verhulst, ended sticking together with co-founders. Freelancing alone in computing is just too hard unless you're a superstar to begin with.
(BTW, https://terminallabs.com/who-we-are/our-team/)