I agree with a lot of what you're saying but, to an extent, I find it even more mind boggling, because not only is the human capital misallocated to at best, lo

I agree with a lot of what you're saying but, to an extent, I find it even more mind boggling, because not only is the human capital misallocated to at best, local optimization of superficial products, but the market most likely would reward people if they focused on other problems. It just feels like people are suffering from a massive streetlight syndrome where they feel like the only valuable thing they can contribute with their skills (which includes the ability to control unprecedented computing power) is more inconsequential mobile apps. It reaches an even more ridiculous point when you consider that Silicon Valley is considered "hubristic" by a lot of pundits. What?! No! Silicon Valley's ambitions are underwhelming at best. We should expect a lot more from it.