I would definitely abuse that rule to do the tasks I want to do. "Writing a VR visualizer is easy, the only hard part is documentation..."

Please enforce this rule on my dad. He recently told me I should take apart his garbage disposal to remove some kind of problem because it would only take about 5 minutes.

My dad doesn't own a screwdriver.

In my house we have a rule that if someone proposes some 'easy or trivial' labor in addition to the current workload, the other can say 'Have at it.'

Software part is often the easy part. Take e.g. Spotify. The music player is easy to replicate, but it also isn't the company's moat. The record label deals are, and good luck replicating those.

Dunning-Kruger in action: people with little knowledge of how much effort it is to run even a trivial business think they can do it in a weekend.

I've been working solo on a SaaS of my own and I've been 1 month away from launch since December 2022. It looked so trivial when I had the brilliant idea, now I'm so deep I might as well take it to completion. Hopefully next month.

Never again will I forget that ideas in a vacuum are worthless compared to the blood, sweat and tears of running a business.