Bad Product Fallacy

Coined by technology writer and investor Andrew Chen in a January 2017 essay on his blog, arguing that personal distaste for a product is a poor predictor of market failure. Chen drew on Clayton Christensen's Innovator's Dilemma (1997) to explain the mechanism: disruptive innovations routinely look flawed or limited at launch, improving only as their markets develop — leaving early dismissers looking shortsighted in hindsight.