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So far, from the majority of comments here, yours included, I have concluded that we somehow got tricked to "upgrade" our hobby to a career, with one major cost: sacrificing our creative freedoms that companies demand us to give up on in place of daily meetings.

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The allure of "get paid well to do something I was going to do for free anyway" is strong.

Yeah...my thinking was more like "if I already love doing this as a hobby, why not do it and get paid for it?"; that was my biggest mistake -_-

Getting paid for doing something you love (or at least like when it comes to work tasks) is far better than having to spend 40 hours a week doing something you hate (in what is likely a much lower paid job), and then still getting home with no energy left to do that thing you love for maybe 1 hour.

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