Couldn't it just be that resources are more abundant and know-how is more spread? You have way more designers, software devs, libraries, etc, now in comparison

Couldn't it just be that resources are more abundant and know-how is more spread? You have way more designers, software devs, libraries, etc, now in comparison to 2013. The trend will be for these things to be almost "commodities"... even for solo founders, you don't need to know design to copy/inspire yourself from a plethora of examples out there. With no code tools you can quickly slap things together to validate stuff, before outsourcing the development to somewhere else if you need to get things going, or hire a dev. Things are just easier and more abundant, so to make the classical "MVP" or a more polished "MVP" probably doesn't require that much extra effort/resources. Also you need to realize that standards have changed, some small things that were valuable are now taken for granted.