When there is an alternative that's been around for decades (centuries?) and it works.
Build skills, work hard, live frugally, invest whatever you can for 40 years, you will end up just fine.
Heck you don't even need to get all of those right, the only mandatory one is the last one, the other three just make it easier.
But this strategy is slow and nobody wants to hear it, it's preached by lame boomers like Warren Buffet and Robert Kiyosaki.
People would rather scroll through the Instagrams of a couple hustlers who are living large and dream. I get it on some level, there's never been a better time in history to get lost in fantasy.