I think you two are using different, but equally valid, meanings of 'boring'. It's good to avoid confounding the two. Whether or not I find a problem interest

I think you two are using different, but equally valid, meanings of 'boring'. It's good to avoid confounding the two. Whether or not I find a problem interesting isn't a good bellwether for how solvable it is. If I'm starting a new company based around a product idea I want the execution of that v1 product to be as boring-as-in-predictable as possible, because there are more than enough risks at play already without adding 'nobody knows how to build this'. There are sort-of exceptions of course, but the vast majority of successful startups are 'boring' in this specific way. As they should be.