You always own your intellectual property, mailing list, and subscriber payments. With full editorial control and no gatekeepers, you can do the work you most believe in.
I just posted perhaps the most important thing I’ve ever written. It took me five months of writing and rewriting (on top of ten years of research and thinking), it’s 14,000 words long, and I have no idea if anyone will actually get to the end of it. Writing is a deeply peculiar business.