In your examples none of them invole solving problems that you would not be unaware of, in ways that you're not aware of without telling you they were there and oh btw they had to rifle through your undwrware drawer to fix it.

The 3xperi3nce and mentorship are obviously important to your success but it's popular for people to try and rely solely on those because it is less effort than learning the mechanics of the subject and often allows people to place rhe blame for their failures on others.

If you want to master something you need both the academics and the experience. Either of them alone leaves you at a disadvantage.

If you have any experience with the field that allows you to answer OP's question please offer that rather than this feel good nonsense.

I do agree that experience is important but experience on top of knowledge is much more valuable.

Are you using an IT structure from the 1990's? Are you funding it using mail in contributions?

If not the only restriction on how fast a platform can grow is entirely down to how fast it can draw attention and acceptance from the masses.

If I'm being honest here these other platforms are a significantly smaller threat to reddit than reddit is. The way the platform reward low value posts and punish any dissenting opinions in discussion threads does more damage to their brands than any wpuld be competitor.

YouTube and YouTube shorts should be two separate apps/sites sevibg two distinct types of content not one where shorts in crammed into a format it isn't suited for.

The difference that you're hinting at though is called human factors in design. For a mobile phone the all touch model is workable. In cars it ignores the key needs like safety and consistency which are different from phones.