Jaspor
Villager
As Burnside said earlier in the thread, DMs Guild is very saturated. Also throw in the fact that production value has gone WAY up across the board there (it's not unusual for creators to have budgets in the hundreds of dollars, maybe even approaching 4 figures), it makes it hard to make a splash and get attention. But you also hit a separate important note. Some people do it just to say they did it, some people are happy to be able to publish things from their own brains or home campaigns to the public, and some people are happy if just a single other person reads their stuff. From a, "Hey, I want to publish something amazing and professional looking and reach a wide audience and make decent money," point of view, those numbers are depressing. But not everybody putting stuff out has that as their goal.Depressing numbers for both sides of the fence, honestly. A 92% chance of fewer than 500 people reading what you've written is grim.
Obviously, industries vary, as do motivations for publishing.
I participated in the RPG Workshop last year and will be finally cranking out a module this year (2020 was crazy, as it was for a lot of folks). But that's mostly just to check a box and say "I did it."