For the most part, that 90% of the development workforce is not working on solving a new and unique use case, but rather solving an already solved use case but for yet another walled garden (think Disney+, Amazon Prime Video, HBO Max, etc. or the analogous diaspora of fitness tracking apps).
The early 00’s “open standard” of web forum + eMule + VLC would still be light years ahead of Netflix&co. if it weren’t for how hard it’s been gutted by governments, copyright lobbies, ISPs and device/platform vendors through the years. Heck, the modern equivalent often still is (despite all the extra hoops), unless you are trying to watch the latest popular show in English.
The early 00’s “open standard” of web forum + eMule + VLC would still be light years ahead of Netflix&co. if it weren’t for how hard it’s been gutted by governments, copyright lobbies, ISPs and device/platform vendors through the years. Heck, the modern equivalent often still is (despite all the extra hoops), unless you are trying to watch the latest popular show in English.