Your piece puts a name on something I have been living without the label.
I am not a developer. For the past few months I built AI tools for my own daily work, and I kept collecting instead of organising them. That trap cost me months.
The disposable part is what changed things for me. I needed answers faster than I could read them, so I asked for single self-contained HTML files I open on my phone, use once, then close. Coming from a different direction, I landed on your same conclusion: a reusable app was never the goal. Understanding was.
The format is what makes the constraint usable — one self-contained page forces the answer to be complete, with nothing left vague.
Thank you for putting the words on it. I did not have them.