I wonder if part of the problem is that if someone finds a sufficiently compelling application, it will be adapted into a product that avoids the need for a lic

I wonder if part of the problem is that if someone finds a sufficiently compelling application, it will be adapted into a product that avoids the need for a license. I know that the CB band was originally intended to be licensed, but they gave up on that once it became wildly popular in the 1970s, and it sounds like those FRS products are basically designed to avoid the user having to acquire a license. In that sort of situation, the Ham community is basically an incubator of communications products, 90% of which will remain niche or fail and 1% of which will be tweaked slightly and sold to non-Hams.