Why not somewhere in between? Ignoring bans on commercial drone usage for the moment, I could see this working well for, say, a realty agency or a local news-gathering team. Really any small organization that has an obvious path from aerial photography to more revenue, can afford this, but can't afford and doesn't have individuals who are dedicated to UAV configuration and piloting.

That said, a non-Vision Phantom with a gimbal and a GoPro can probably also get satisfactory results for those same customers. Still, the price wouldn't be significantly less, and the Inspire 1 has a full 360 gimbal with yaw and separate camera controls (which is huge), seems to have more flight control features (last I checked, Phantoms didn't support waypoint navigation), and might have better video quality than a GoPro.