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This completely fails to address the significance of the word "viable" in MVP - it's only meaningful if we define what it's viable _for_.

In a startup it may be "viable to test a hypothesis", in a running business it may be "viable to implement a new workflow". In either case the logic of the MVP approach holds - do the least you need to do to learn what to do next.

One could argue that "simple" in their SLC is analogous to "minimal", and "lovable" to "viable".