I just assume that when people are too busy with creating fantastical stories around some of their ventures, they're probably not doing too well, and are trying to establish themselves as influencers. Hell, sometimes I even doubt they had any ventures to begin with.
It's even worse on low-effort platforms like Instagram, TikTok, etc. seems like 95% of modern "Entrepreneur" content is just a mishmash of MLM, grind/hustle porn, dropshipping, etc.
What you get depends a lot on where you're looking - it's true that there's a lot of this clickbaity entrepreneur writing that's light on details on heavy on storytelling, but there's also a lot of great content about entrepreneurs out there.
My advice is to stop reading blog posts and articles, and start getting into content that goes deeper. Listen to the podcast How I Built This - it does a better job of going deep and addressing both failures and successes. Read books - stories of businesses like Shoe Dog by Phil Knight are great, and even if they're autobiographical and thus destined to be slanted to the positive side of things, they still have a lot of real info to dig into.
It's even worse on low-effort platforms like Instagram, TikTok, etc. seems like 95% of modern "Entrepreneur" content is just a mishmash of MLM, grind/hustle porn, dropshipping, etc.