This reflects increased maturity and thus the transition to more specialized labor. It is akin to early craftsmen assembling cars and transitioning to assembly

This reflects increased maturity and thus the transition to more specialized labor. It is akin to early craftsmen assembling cars and transitioning to assembly lines. Automation tools that provide APIs to allow founders to increase their leverage are produced by other developers who specialize in said tools. Ideally, this allows the most efficient use of resources, everybody wins. Those who are great at building tools can do so and these tools can be used by many organizations. Pessimistically, there are some who get squeezed out of the production equation. Should a startup develop their own accounting system? Unless they are in accounting, probably not. But there will hopefully become a point where a founder needs to bring in resources, internal or external, to manage the accounting system. This is a further extension of that.