It’s up to you to make the judgement call - it’s not that hard to predict what VCs would want your product to become if they get involved, and it’s up to you to

It’s up to you to make the judgement call - it’s not that hard to predict what VCs would want your product to become if they get involved, and it’s up to you to decide if that’s the direction you want to take for your vision. If what you want to do is incongruous with what you think the typical investor would want you to do to get their ROI, then bootstrapping might be valuable. Or you know you could be more deliberate in your search for investors (just be sure they are not saying something today with other intentions for tomorrow).