One possible interpretation of this trend is that it is yet another manifestation of the neoliberal era. With the steady loss of job security and other benefits from stable employment, along with a society that repeatedly stresses the virtues of individualism and "hustle", it looks increasingly attractive for people to strike out on their own.

Through that lens, one might say that while this article focuses on some successful cases, it ignores the incredible hardship of this ordeal, and the thousands of failures that have happened happening to other people (or even the same people) attempting the exact same thing.

That said, this looks mostly like the future that I want to see. I think that the future is local (maybe even hyperlocal) and a world in which both producers and consumers are more attuned to locality and spatiality drastically widens the possibility space of new experiences.

I think the most radical interpretation of what I actually want to see is a future that's less Darwinian, one in which people can be artisans without also spending most of their lives being entrepreneurs.