> I found a few startups who are either using games to fund and solve real user needs or using Unity to create educational/informative visualizations for museums and businesses. This led me to change my mind and return to creating games and hopefully start working with one of these startups

That sounds amazing, I think there is a lot of opportunity in repurposing Game UI for non-game environments. A lot of gameplay UI is optimized for common actions & being intuitive to use