Pretty sure your above point is wrong. I don't know if you watch the art market, but artist don't get metric shit tones of USD/TC for art. Toribash art really isn't a good form of extra income, there are a lot better things out there for art that make money. Also, I see a lot of the popular artists of toribash in-game, so before you speak for other people you should know what they are actually doing.

Hell, I even saw FlyingMonk in-game a lot recently, so I think that proves my point that the popular artists are still in-game.