If you only want to play what you want to play, with only who you want to play with, there really isn't any other consideration you should consider. Aren't those enough?!

Money, crowds, what do they matter..? You have decided what you want. Now all you have to do is accept what those decisions have led to. If you can't handle the inevitable end result of that path, you have to be realistic. What's the lesser of the two evils? The end result, or the process to arrive at it?

We make our beds. Got to lie in it!