Devtools are consumer products

In my mind the defining attributes of devtools as a category are

• They help with sometimes minute aspects of a users workflow - they are optimization tools
• They are often created by developers for developers, and often start off for personal use
  • Though developers in general benefit from the proliferation of devtools
• In their procurement: often, devtools are paid for by companies to increase the productivity of their employees
• The driving logic of a devtools is that it is worth being more productive, it is worth composing together tools to be a 10x or 100x developer

Why shouldn't the same logic be applied to consumer products which are:

• Similarly designed to help individuals
• Benefit most when the people making it are also users of the thing

The main difference is that the currently, we imagine consumer products as either being vapid because it's for consumer or fundamentally a business product. These are shortcuts IMO, and bad ones.

But why shouldn't people want to be 10 or 100x better in their life? So devtools are consumer products and consumer products should be thought of like devtools.