After being in the publishing arena for nearly 30 years, I have learned a thing or two about distribution: It controls everything and every business. Regardless of your superb, excellent, and beneficial product or service, you will be the only one who knows about it without distribution.
What has changed in the last decade is the increase in spiritual warfare and, frankly, the all-powerful evil of greed. Add to this "cancel culture" technology and now AI, and you get a perfect scenario for the automation of monopolies that keep the Truth out.