I feel your pain, people just don't know how difficult it is to make anything generally depending on what you're doing. Even with what I would say the more 'easier' stuff like simply writing a blog or making a youtube video you still have to actually think about what you're doing, edit everything up and make sure it all makes sense.
As I've discovered with my own blog, there are periods where there's fuck all attention to your work so you have to adapt to that as well, people like you who can get $200 posts are very lucky lol. Building a business and being self-employed is not easy, the people you are talking to as you say clearly think it is.
Сами себе и ответили))).."ясно думают"...)))