I think an organization's governance structure being successful has more to do with how the people in the organization want to be governed than whether it's building an app or feeding the poor.
With full respect to your right to criticize, I don't understand what differentiates an organization trying to build a social networking app around biodiversity data from an organization feeding the poor, and those organizations' ability to experiment with their governance system. Can you expand that thought or is it rhetorical?
I've had similar thoughts. Any interest in sharing notes? Generally I've been thinking there should be a standard declarative format for data vis. This should be inspired by prior art like ggplot, Grammar of Graphics, Vega, VegaLite, etc.
From there it could be compiled to targets declarative or procedural (eg to generate VegaLite specs, echart specs or Observable Plot configs in JS).
How have you been thinking about this problem space?