I can believe it. It's a recurring generality.
One hand you have professional photography, lighting, makeup, hairstyling, wardrobe, props, modeling coaches, etc, all of whom more or less agree on an idea to use for a shoot with a model who made appearing for it a professional appointment in her schedule to bring her best to. On the other you have badly lit phone selfies, the model's own ideas good or bad, whatever wing-it schedule she operates on, and whatever DIY photography, lighting, makeup, hair, and wardrobe she can manage. Anything professional is going to cost her a lot of money or she better have connections and even those will cost eventually.
Stefania occupies a middle ground between the two having been a professional model for a long time who without a doubt took those experiences and connections to her Patreon/OF, but even then she hasn't been able to match volume and quality has slowly declined. Add on top of it her activism which has probably burned a few collaborative bridges if it's anywhere as off-putting to deal with IRL as it is watching through the screen.
She would have been better off if she never met Tash Peterson.