100% agree. It's a trade-off. Get product-market fit first and learn what you can about the domain. Spend enough time on architecture up front so you can easily

100% agree. It's a trade-off. Get product-market fit first and learn what you can about the domain. Spend enough time on architecture up front so you can easily pivot. That's all the simplicity you should care about at that point. Once you get traction, you can start to afford to have the crazy vision. IMO, at that point it's easily worth the risk. A decent research team will probably discover something, and potentially extremely valuable knowledge. If you were James Clerk Maxwell before he published his equations, how much would they be worth to you, especially if you had paying customers?