"You should quit your lofty goals and revert to those more practical in nature.", said no-one who ever accomplished something great
That's how selection bias works.
I think the nature of this debate is such that we'll always settle on the idea that "one ideology fits all" has never worked and will never work.
A few people doing great is important for the world, and so is a lot of people doing okay-to-good. Which one is more important can be your personal POV, but it's easy to see that neither is worth discarding.
"This is my situation and what I've done about it, what worked and did not work for me."
Then it is up to the listener to learn something from it, possibly transpose, or not.
"Never quit on your dreams," said most people who never achieve anything.
Or are we suddenly supposed to not ever fail, and attempt only things that work the first time?
You might sit and plan and talk to people and make a buisness plan involving dump trucks and stay at your day job planning for ever.
You might make viable plans for digging a large hole, but they don't quite fill the great pit of your vision.
Or you might pick digging as big a hole as possible as a direction, and do the next thing.
Dig with a space until you get tired then hire a digger and learn to drive it. End up with a big pile of mud to get rid of and find out you could sell it. Who knew selling mud could pay for more diggers. Hire good diggers and drivers because you've done it yourself and know how it's done. Do the next thing, do the next thing.
Until one day out have a really big hole. Not the biggest, but pretty big.