I don't think downvoting is good way for showing disagreement.

I disagree with what you wrote. It does not waste developers time, it wastes money of business owners. Developers are usually paid for their time even if they are reading HN instead of working.

Now question is to people who pay money if they want to pay for "something in the future maybe will be useful". They will say hell no! They want time to market to be as short as possible and as much of end user value delivered.

Now you take example of SQLite or Armin Ronacher those are exceptions. There is a lot more software that is not anything done by Armin and is not SQLite.