Given that...

• As an alt-ac I do not need to have published articles to be promoted in my professional work;
• As an alc-ac I do not get professional recognition for works published (except for some internal delight when I see my citation numbers😅)
• As an alt-ac I don't get "work release" time from my dayjob to work on this research, so any research work I do eats into my hobby/free time;
• As a hobby, research publications don't pay (whereas other gigs do, providing an incentive to give up some of your free time in exchange for my expertise);
• Publication of research is hitting bottlenecks, both with peer reviews and periodic journal moratoria;
• Even without the bottlenecks, getting through peer review can be a challenge (thanks to Reviewer 2😂) and even with good publications it's been a challenge at times to get published;
• I have at least two publications (ca. 2018 and 2021 respectively) that I completed but have yet to publish because of journal moratoria or book editors ghosting me after the work was completed - and don't feel like doing the reformatting work (or updating work) to resubmit elsewhere...