Indie selects for generalists with taste.

True in film, games, art, etc.

If you're doing any of those industries as part of a machine, you learn just how to turn that crank as part of a larger machine you likely don't understand at all.

But if you're doing indie, you have to have an approximate sense of all of the aspects of creating it.

Much richer knowhow.

To be successful in an indie context you must have taste.