Humans are perfectly capable of this themselves and in fact often do it...

I really encourage you to update your priors since capabilities are very different than even 6 months ago.

The entire car dealership lobby hates Tesla, for example.

The issue is how tools are used, not that they are used at all.

I haven't hand-written more than a dozen lines of code in months. The models are really really good now if you can learn to use them. There's definitely a learning curve though as is true with anything new.

Before the App Store, the picture was mostly a disaster of security, reliability and quality. There was no trust and so people didn't bother parting with their credit card information to buy software...especially not on their phone.

Apple's App Store model dramatically grew the pie because it was one of the few platforms that people were willing to actually transact confidently on and trusted. This is why millions of developers flocked to the platform. This is also why Apple has traditionally maintained an iron grip on it; it was beneficial for everyone involved.

Over time, they are being proven right as more open platforms realize that openness at the expense of trust doesn't work for the masses.

Developers are businesses and the economics need to work. For that, safety and security is much more important than openness.

His process resulted in some of the most transformative products humanity has ever known.

It's inherent in the process and way of thinking. It's a dangerous path to pursue for entrepreneurs. How can the results be anything but disposable and frivolous when the process treats them as such.

I'm genuinely just curious what makes you think LA is uniquely mismanaged in a way that other tier-1 cities in America are not. I don't have too much experience with LA but am familiar enough.