Writing more lines of code at a higher rate does not make any contribution toward improving imagination. maybe you can have more attempts in life and something may land? maybe. but you'll always get beaten by someone with imagination eventually - given technology compresses life cycles your app may no longer have any demand within 12 months of being shipped.
"Many existing apps can be mostly cloned by a small team over 6 months or a year,"
I have a vision of re-imagining stuff that is currently done across 5 apps, done within one that is far simpler and with favourable economics. Most people wont figure this kind of stuff out - it requires a lot of imagination. And if done in stealth - the incumbents will be fcked.
My belief is that we are gonna see a lot of consolidation - things that used to be done across multiple apps within one. Whilst at the same time a rise in apps that do one thing really really well - think of it as being closer to the ideal product where people current face a mismatch cost. This will remove the existence of most 'general' apps - which is a good thing imo.
Writing more lines of code at a higher rate does not make any contribution toward improving imagination. maybe you can have more attempts in life and something may land? maybe. but you'll always get beaten by someone with imagination eventually - given technology compresses life cycles your app may no longer have any demand within 12 months of being shipped.