You are begging the question, in the logical fallacy sense. You have to advertise and promote because advertising has been allowed to grow unbounded like a canc

You are begging the question, in the logical fallacy sense. You have to advertise and promote because advertising has been allowed to grow unbounded like a cancer and drown out everything else. It's a tragedy of the commons. If advertising were toned down a couple orders of magnitude, word of mouth might actually get more traction.