Where is the way out for portrait photographers?

I have been struggling with this problem for a long time. When I first came into contact with photography, I thought it was an art-oriented industry. Just like a painter painting, it is meaningful for a photographer to enjoy the sense of accomplishment brought by that kind of artistic creation. However, I soon discovered that this was not the case at all. The so-called art is just a puppet in business, it is just a tool to make money. Under the temptation of commercial factors, portrait photography is far from artistic creation. This is especially serious in the studio. Every peak season, a photographer has to shoot at least two sets of wedding dresses every day, some even three or four sets, and even five or six sets are even more terrible! Under such urgent and high-intensity pressure, who else has the mind to create anything? Presumably at the end of the day, the hand that presses the shutter will cramp! In order to improve the shooting efficiency and obtain greater commercial benefits, some large photo studios conduct model management at all costs. Make-up, photography and post-operation are completely independent, that is, according to the standards planned by the company. For example, in photography, there are lighting engineers who specialize in lighting and assistants who specialize in posing beautifully. The photographer only needs to adjust the exposure focus composition and press the shutter. A friend of mine who works in a large photo studio told me that once he drank and played cards until dawn at night, but he had to go to work during the day. I couldn't help sleeping on the sofa in the studio for a while. When a client came into the studio to take pictures, I slowly picked up the camera, absently instructed one assistant to turn on the light first, and then another assistant made a beautiful gesture. I just sat there hiding behind the camera and pressed the shutter. Probably because he was so sleepy, he patted himself and fell asleep, and even snored-which may have been added in a joke-several times before the assistant came to his senses and continued to press the shutter. We were all drunk at that time, and I laughed my head off and laughed at him. Don't tell others that he is a photographer in the future, just say that he is a shutter master. It's time to talk about me. I used to work in a humble studio, and the boss was a mercenary bastard. He asked you to follow the pattern he set, so as not to make you feel any inappropriate in lighting and composition. He is always instilling in me a sentence: we are doing business and efficiency, not your stupid art that not many customers will like! I admit, what I shoot is far from art, but I can't stand it as mediocre as the boss says. I want to make this shot more valuable. But ..... it's not easy for a person to change jobs in a foreign land. If I want to continue working, I can only do what the boss wants. Therefore, taking photos has completely become the same thing: fixed lighting, conservative composition, mechanically arousing customers' emotions ... I feel like a machine on an assembly line, programmed, and like my friend, I can only press the shutter mechanically. Finally, I really couldn't stand this life any longer, so I resigned, packed my bags and went back to my hometown-there is another reason, which I won't say here. Up to now, I have been back for three months. I haven't even touched photography. I seem to have lost my old enthusiasm for it-something that means nothing to me. I'm not interested. Why do you do this? I don't understand, what's the point of doing the same thing over and over again every day? I don't know if everyone is so confused. If so, where is our way out?