Filing patents may suck for you, but it's not like, BigCorp who pays your salary is going to let you out of it. If you're creating something unprotected by copyright (eg physical), and don't completely control the means of production, then not having a patent means your invention/productivity is likely worthless due to competition anyway.

By the time you could have a product made, your manufacturer could simply make more and sell at a lower price those you receive nothing for. It's really common for kickstarters, and you can try splitting up the manufacture or adding little software bits to control it, but there's a reason patents on the creation of physical objects exist.