@jharpphoto
Been flying under 107 for over a year now, flying drones longer than that though.
Been a professional photographer for over 15 years, mainly architecture and product photography. There is a big market for architecture photography, all of our clients want drone shots now. We started out with a phantom 3 pro years ago because one big job required drone shots, now everyone wants them so we upgraded to the Inspire 2.
As stupid as it sounds the Inspire "looks" professional, it impresses clients and that counts for something and it helps separate you from the 100s of other guys flying phantoms or anything else. You should start out small, but if the work is there I would upgrade when you can.
As far as the test its easy, I had no pilots experience and I just studied over a week then took the test, missed two questions about military routes that I hadn't read about while studying. Drones are here to stay in this business and its great.