Evangelists of web3 will often say that a big goal of the whole thing is giving more power to creators and giving them more money. When you can keep all your royalties yourself, why pay a platform or agent? When you sell your work as an NFT, you will get paid the first time you sell it. If someone buys it and sells it, what happens? You would get a royalty on that sale. Most of the transactions aren't set that way.
There is more on the current state of NFTs and how platforms are thinking about royalties on this show. At the Center for the Humanities, Lauren is a post-doc.