I think this is often where people are confused by MVP. Your minimum viable product isn't (necessarily) your initial product. It's the product you build to test

I think this is often where people are confused by MVP. Your minimum viable product isn't (necessarily) your initial product. It's the product you build to test a hypothesis. This is why the article read fairly false to me, not that there wasn't the odd nugget of value, but coming up with a new MVT, is just adding to the confusion.