OK, didn't read the blog but I did listen to the long video. What I can agree with is people want something easy.
In my case I just returned from a short vacation, my wife has already selected and posted her favorite iPhone photos for her friends to see (a few during the trip and the last few today). I have only imported my photos into LR, tagged, rated and processed a part of those RAW files.
It seems that over the life of photography there have always been spurts when there were new features that made some part of the process to have a final image available in a easier and faster manner (tintype, film, roll film, 35mm, polaroid, built-in metering, auto-exposure, auto-focus and digital are a few that come to mind). What can drive the next spurt, does it matter?