I'll assume that the term "gig worker" here is a "freelancer".

Well, there are many freelancers that got out of a job during the pandemic that stayed as a freelancer until now. Why? Them getting terminated would be easy, but as long as they have the skills to get hired, it's easy for them to find another one. I've seen freelancers losing one of their clients, but they still have 2 more clients. I've also seen freelancers who lost their only client, but after a few weeks, they have another client already. Instability is always there if you're a freelancer, and that's the risk of it, but if you have the skills, and you know you can do the tasks or work, you can technically be stable with being a freelancer.

I don't know about other countries especially to those better countries, but in our country, most of the traditional employees are earning a minimum wage, and in today's lifestyle, that isn't enough to feed for a whole family. If you want to survive, and you're earning only a minimum wage on a monthly basis, you need 2 sources of income whether being an employee with a business as a sideline, or 2 minimum wage earners on a family or whatever it is. Because of this reason, I'm still working as an employee right now, and currently earning minimum wage, but I want to work as a freelancer.