I find NSFW to be a simultaneously oversaturated and untapped market. The latter end is where the fun is. As for the former, so much of the NSFW scene is stereotypical, soulless, boring, and predictable slop. Adding AI onto the pile makes it even worse.
Pieces end up being
>Girl or faggot in void, no backgrounds or setting, 0 to 100 degeneracy
NSFW OCs boil down to
>le smug or shy femboy, bimbo, goth girl, dissatisfied housewife, ugly bastard, corrupted heroine, Adoptables
Stories devolve into
>I'm a slut lets fuck, I'm a slut let's fuck and cuck my boyfriend/husband, I'm a slut, and I hate being a slut, etc.
Not to say ALL NSFW is like this but a vast majority just likes to be edgy and degenerate for shock value. Most of NSFW is just tasteless smut, not erotica.
The community is weird, cliquey, rude, and disingenuous. The only thing you have "in common" with your followers and network, is that you share a basic primal feeling, a feeling that does not make you think straight. You will quickly discover none of your mutuals are interesting, infact they might be more boring than you are. You aren't even friends, especially if they're one of those people who follow thousands of people, you're just 1 fish out of their entire sea, and nothing special, they 9 times out of 10 only truly care about the people within their inner circle. It's the equivalent of a LinkedIn network.
>it's soul draining but i think it's not if you are creative
Commissions, can be soul draining. You are no longer in the creative seat, your client is, and it will be a coin flip on whether they're flexible or stubborn with their idea. While I dislike the community I do love the craft. I like being creative by making actual characters and stories, its a puzzle in a sense like how can I creatively get 2 characters to interact without it just going straight to sex. What settings rarely have NSFW? How can I make the sex a feature and not the entire setting? Stuff like that is fun to tackle.