This is remarkably similar to the sentiments I addressed in "The Tyranny of the Minimum Viable User"<p><a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/69wk8y/the_tyranny_of_the_minimum_viable_user/" rel="nofollow">https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/69wk8y/the_tyr...</a><p>The trade-off is one of intensity vs. ubiquity, and has pecedents, e.g., Dwight Macdonald's "A Theory of Mass Culture", 1950s.