Hi there.
I am not completely sure what 'homesteading' means. Apparently it is the lifestyle that you need for thriving alone, or with your family, in an isolated location.
But this is missing the potential for specialization and trade, and I am pretty sure that most of those who claim to be homesteaders have a trade and something in what they specialize, for not everything can be produced from the
land.
So far, I am approaching this topic as a handyman. The same I do not need to call an electrician for a bulb replacement, most basic home tasks I can do on my own, I learn to do them, but when it comes to something that needs a specialist, I have to call him/her. Meaning that I need a paid work and some income. Having a paid work means not being at home for 8 to 12 hours a day, depending on the job and the distance. And it means coming home too exhausted to do any hard work.
In the end, I am not living as a homesteader, but we do most of the basic stuff around the house. I can mend a button in my shirt, but I have to buy another when it is wore off. Those skills take time to develop, and an investment in specialized tools, and if you live like me in the urban, there is no lack of specialists that will offer a much better job for a much lower wage. Instead, there's a lack of space for so many different tools in my so small appartment. I do cook and preserve food, but most of what I eat still comes from the supermarket. I bake homemade bread, but most of the bakeries comes from the bakery. I
compost my kitchen scraps for the pot plants, where I have mostly culinary herbs, but most of our rubbish still goes to the landfill (we tried to buy less packaged food, but it's an exhausting and expensive task). We can do some first aid, but we need to see the doctor sooner or later. So for, so for.
So we take simple and easy steps towards a more ecologically friendly and self sufficient lifestyle, but stop where it becomes too demanding or expensive.
Would this lifestyle qualify as hybrid homesteading?
PS. Speaking of self-sufficiency, I was told once that self-sufficiency does not mean doing everything on your own, but not needing the free help of others. If you can pay for the work you need to be done with your self earned money, that is self-sufficiency too.