I resonate with what you've reconciled yourself to. Funny you should mention "it took me 20 years to become an overnight success" as I wrote a song about that. Anyway, I guess the challenge for everybody and anybody these days is "a wider audience". Just sad that so many with a wide audience don't artistically deserve it (not that I do). Fortunately for me, I have zero expectations, so anything above zero is a nice surprise.