I think you have wrong idea about MVP. Let’s say we are making coffee shop as a business. To build MVP you still need great location, awesome interior, few amazing coffee options, smiling and welcoming staff and great prices. In MVP you can leave out “wouldn’t that be awesome if we had” things, like free wifi, comfy puffs, all kind of coffees, pastries and ice creams. You can’t build MVP in crappy place, location and serve bad coffee.
MVP is functional, easy to use main product, without extras, to ship it faster and validate market. You add fancy features later.
True, i totally agree with you, but the bar ia higher in everything. Even in offline businesses, back in the days you could open any business in your garage, now you need a whole legal team to handle and get all licenses, permits and other stuff before you can even start something.