I might be weird, but I love phases 2 to 5 and I hate phase 1 with a passion. I hate speaking with people to see what their problems are. I want to solve problems, not user surveys. And all the itches I have are either already solved, not itchy enough or too wide / ambitious to approach them solo. If LLMs solved exclusively 1 and told me "this problem is actually valuable, go and solve it", I would be the happiest person in the world. It's not true that ideas are cheap. Or better: ideas themselves are dirty cheap, good ideas are invaluable.