That's because software is hard to make, and most projects don't make it far enough to prove themselves useful--despite them having the potential to be useful. If software gets easier, a whole new cohort of projects will start surviving past their larval stage.

These might not be big products, but who wants big products anyway? You always have to bend over backwards to trick them into doing what you want. You should see the crazy stuff my partner does to make google docs fit her use case...

Let's have an era of small products made by people who are close to the problems being solved.