The Importance of Freelancing

I've had people fire me for showing them the, the first round of mockups for a website. And it being so off and they've just been like, no, no iterations. Do you think freelancing is still a good path for people? Not a clue. I literally have no idea because yeah, I just, I've been so far out of it for so long. That's another reason why I kind of just like, I don't really need to give advice on the internet as well.