I appreciate the technical details, but the only thing that really mattered was the completely arbitrary design decision to make it look like paper, i.e., to ad

I appreciate the technical details, but the only thing that really mattered was the completely arbitrary design decision to make it look like paper, i.e., to adopt a minimalist approach. This has been the distinguishing feature, as against all the other feature-full applications. Its success has spawned copy-cat's in this and other domains. The solo dev can avoid following the herd. Developer groups, esp. groups with investors, require mutually-acceptable justifications that reduce to, well, joining the herd. So as a solo dev, amplify this advantage, and ask: what do people really want, that they can't get from the herd? (Esp. in an age thundering with AI mash-up's)