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I wouldn’t call his reply gatekeeping. He’s kind of just promoting a race to the bottom mentality.
I read hers as gatekeeping and his as holding a mirror to that gatekeeping.
Her phrasing of “you want to shoot for x money” is gatekeeping. You can’t have a hobby because I paid more money to do it professionally.
If she’s talking about people wanting to low ball her she would’ve said “a shoot” instead of “to shoot”. It’s also perfectly likely she just misspoke.