Comment by imiric

I'm not arguing in favor of technical complexity or ingenuity.

My point is that the perceived value of a service or product is directly related to its competitive advantage, product differentiation, and so on. When the service is made from the same cookie cutter template as all the others, the only value that can be extracted from it is by duping customers who don't know better.

There are entire industries flooded with cheap and poorly made crap from companies that change brand names every week. Code generation tools have now enabled such grifters to profit from software as well.