I wasn’t good at pottery-making in college, but I enjoyed using the wheel more than hand-building. A skilled potter can make a beautifully formed vessel easily. One of the students was a grizzled older guy who would come in and make quite large vessels. He seemed to be a pro who just needed the equipment and space, so he apparently audited the course. I suspect he sold his work. He’d come in after I got to the pottery workshop, throw something, put it in the drying area and disappear, leaving me and the occasional rat to bumble along by ourselves.
I don’t have a wheel-but I do like to make bowls and cups by hand forming now and then-I’ve become good enough that my cups actually sit level so you can fill them with coffee, but it took some practice. Hopefully, I can get my kiln hooked up again this Winter and make some gift stuff. I have some molds for cups and such-but pouring slip into a mass-produced mold isn’t the same as making by hand so that each cup can be made a bit different.