For my personal use I feel the opposite. (Although I’m definitely not the demographic you should target)

I prefer simple and sometimes less intuitive UIs since they usually indicate the product is either function-oriented or from a small team. When things are too polished it feels off putting and sterile. I’d use Windows Vista over MacOS any day.

But to answer your question, no I don’t think MVPs are dead. Instead of doing 100% of your product’s features at 50% quality, you should focus on doing 50% of your final product at 100% quality.

The idea is still to make something that’s just good enough to bear its own weight and demonstrate the concept to potential investors. The only thing that’s changed is what people are expecting

Shifting to pay much more attention to open source. OpenAI is good but they can’t win at every single metric.

Building something with OpenAI is a fools errand if they’re just going to suck up everyone’s data and automate it themselves. By making features for open source you can cater to all the edge cases they think would hurt their ultra authoritarian brand