I don’t know if an MVP is always about testing the waters.
It can also be about getting started earning revenue and getting customers. And so it can mean “What is the minimum set of features, without which there’s nothing even to advertise—this product would have zero advantages over what already exists”
That is sounding to me like it has a similar problem. How do you know when you reach that point of surpassing “zero advantages over what already exists”? Maybe you thought that feature A was unnecessary but it turned out you were wrong. Maybe you thought that the set of features A, B and C was what you needed, when in reality just A and B would have sufficed.
I don’t know if an MVP is always about testing the waters.
It can also be about getting started earning revenue and getting customers. And so it can mean “What is the minimum set of features, without which there’s nothing even to advertise—this product would have zero advantages over what already exists”
That is sounding to me like it has a similar problem. How do you know when you reach that point of surpassing “zero advantages over what already exists”? Maybe you thought that feature A was unnecessary but it turned out you were wrong. Maybe you thought that the set of features A, B and C was what you needed, when in reality just A and B would have sufficed.