Yes, but the way you're rationalizing it is pretty insular. UX is not the problem - you can solve this a billion different ways. The problem is that unseating predominate concentrations of wealth is impossible. The stated goal that you (and others) are expecting is a pipe dream.
> Steve Jobs famously said
Steve Jobs was a good marketer and a mediocre businessman. The fact that so many people here take him at face value is like if researchers from the future thought Charlie Chaplin was a drama actor. It's embarrassing that anyone with the gall to call something a "tech bubble illusion" would cite Steve "Reality Distortion Field" Jobs, but here we are. I gotta get off this site...
> The longer that this space continues to focus on and struggles to get traction for novelty toy products
The space is novelty toy products. What did you really expect, for the IMF to roll over and "give you one for free"? Have you not followed the past century of macroeconomics?