If you could build a small (1-2 devs working for couple of months), indie hacker style niche product that could guaranteed generate anywhere between couple of hundreds to few thousand $/month. Perks like total control over a small venture, joy of building, possibility of working on multiple of these type of projects etc.
And at the other end you have a typical VC style startups that would eventually require building team, raising capital and could fail or succeed in a big way.
What would you choose? Why?
While venture capital can be required for certain types of businesses or products having an investor requires time and energy for matters only indirectly related to your product and your customers. With venture capital investors onboard the question "How do I build a product that solves a problem for my customers?" becomes less important in favour of "How will it be able to scale?".
Venture capital also means that probably you won't be running the company yourself anymore in 5-10 years. Given your motivation that can be perfectly fine but if you love what you're doing this can be a downside.