Why Template-as-Product Is Structurally Hard in 2026

This is a follow-up to an earlier post about letting an AI agent run a product launch for me. That post was the story of what happened. This one is the category analysis I finished afterward. Short version: in 2026, shipping a general-purpose template as a standalone product is structurally hard for a solo operator. Not because the templates aren't good, but because the specific customer the category was designed for no longer has the same reason to buy. Here's the long version, with the specifi