[dredmorbius]

This is remarkably similar to the sentiments I addressed in "The Tyranny of the Minimum Viable User"

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/69wk8y/the_tyr...

The trade-off is one of intensity vs. ubiquity, and has pecedents, e.g., Dwight Macdonald's "A Theory of Mass Culture", 1950s.