there is more to it . the initial motive is not just “utility”.[quote=“Radivis, post:1, topic:1185”]
It’s basically a psychological role
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with your points 1-5 you create an ideal development but not necessarily the reality. successful developers include the idea of acceptance of the product due to social pressure. and if the social pressure is not enough, they use additional pressure like with windows 10. https://transforum.fractalfuture.net/t/basic-digital-autonomy/1169 if the “utility” of this new os would be convincing, they would not need to give it away for free, nor force people to use it.
the idea of social pressure is not only the initial motive but one of the goals to invent things like the sesame credit: Social credit system - Wikipedia and the gain is to control people.
but one of the most common initial motive, to invent a new product is not the idea of utility but of profit. so if you want to have success and make profit, you have to sell dreams and illusions much more than utility. transhumanism has this power to sell dreams: immortality is the oldest dream, and becoming a superhero with enhancements as well.
in an ideal world new products and technologies would be invented with the idea of “utility” for its consumers. then social pressure will help to spread new technologies, like it was with electricity and telephones.
no. because this requires that every new development means progress and this is not the case.