What I want doesn't matter any more than what you want regarding this. What matters is what the society as a whole wants, and the current situation is in big part the manifestation of it.
> And what happens after you get that business running and bringing in some revenue, but you need to start tackling harder problems in order to keep your current customers happy and attract new customers? You're stuck with a bunch of developers poorly suited to solving those problems, and a bunch of infrastructure that wasn't designed with this sort of feature expansion in mind.
you're assuming that you would even have gotten the first customers if things were "done right". My experience seeing entire businesses held by 1kloc of "academic" (I'm not saying this as a compliment) python scripts with 20% of it being globals succeeding says otherwise.
And what happens after you get that business running and bringing in some revenue, but you need to start tackling harder problems in order to keep your current customers happy and attract new customers? You're stuck with a bunch of developers poorly suited to solving those problems, and a bunch of infrastructure that wasn't designed with this sort of feature expansion in mind.
So you hire some new people who have to rewrite a bunch of things, or who have to spend months or quarters untangling the mess. You could even miss your market opportunity. Even if you don't, you've still wasted a lot of time and money.