Unfortunately, your reasoning has an enormous hole in it. A huge part of a product's quality is how it fares over time, i.e. how many years it lasts and how much it costs to maintain. Sadly, this either takes time or a realistic assessment to determine, both of which cannot part of a market bubble.
The 10$ shirt becomes a much shittier proposal once, in addition to its worse looks, fit, and comfort, you factor in its significantly lower durability and lifespan. That's why the 100$ shirt still exists after all. Nevermind that the example is a bad one to begin with because low-price commodities like T-shirts are never worth fixing when they break, but code with a paid maintainer clearly is.
In an market bubble like the one we find ourselves in, longevity is simply not relevant because the financial opportunity lies precisely in getting off in the train right before it crashes. For investors and managers, that is. Developers may be allowed to change cars, but they are stuck the train.
It's sad how some of the doomed are so desperate to avoid their fate that they fall prey to promises they know to be bullshit. The argument for Wish and TEMU products is exactly the same, yet we can all see it for what it is in those cases: a particularly short-lived lie.
Just addressing the comparison: a t-shirt can be changed for the cost of the new t-shirt. A software product costs not only the new one (being AI, very cheap) but also the cost of integrating it with processes and people - and this can kill you.
The 10$ shirt becomes a much shittier proposal once, in addition to its worse looks, fit, and comfort, you factor in its significantly lower durability and lifespan. That's why the 100$ shirt still exists after all. Nevermind that the example is a bad one to begin with because low-price commodities like T-shirts are never worth fixing when they break, but code with a paid maintainer clearly is.
In an market bubble like the one we find ourselves in, longevity is simply not relevant because the financial opportunity lies precisely in getting off in the train right before it crashes. For investors and managers, that is. Developers may be allowed to change cars, but they are stuck the train.
It's sad how some of the doomed are so desperate to avoid their fate that they fall prey to promises they know to be bullshit. The argument for Wish and TEMU products is exactly the same, yet we can all see it for what it is in those cases: a particularly short-lived lie.