Good point, not having to plan for the long term probably has an outsized effect on a given level of difficulty/effort required.
Maybe it’d be interesting to see what could be achieved responsibly by motivated people with models in a world without “feature pressure”/competitive stress (which’d include e.g. no security race and infinite attackers and exploits to keep up with)?
To a limited degree, yes, but there’s still competition in that you need to have something compelling to be sold. But that’s probably way less than in your typical B2B software offering situation.