An alternative could be to become a corporate soldier for a decade and achieve financial freedom by living frugally and saving aggressively.

You’ll find yourself in your early 30s with at least a million dollars (and likely much more) being able to take so much more risk without having to rely on (or upset) your parents.

This is not too bad. While as you say working in corporate America is not necessarily the apex of one’s life, you can learn a lot of things that will be useful in your future endeavors. I currently work as a senior tech person at a FAANG and the scale of things I see is really interesting (e.g. I routinely do data processing on tens of exabytes), and it is very unlikely you’d be exposed to similar challenges just by doing random freelancing gigs to stay afloat.