Which market is that? It isn’t clear if you are talking about the “web”, or Hardypress’ customers.
My experience disagrees with this observation. Most of the websites I build for small businesses use Gravity Forms to update external systems, though otherwise they have simple and primarily “static” content.
Again, disagree. I host websites for a variety of orgs and individuals, and volume would undermine my work; not everyone is building so websites they can ignore existing partners; maybe I just have more interesting clients. 
That part really sticks out to me:
I’d say a lot of folks have that strategy in mind. And it doesn’t work, except to potentially introduce folks new to operating a website to poor business practices. I can’t speak to it directly unless you define the “market” you are referring to, but generally a capitalistic approach to rent-seeking hasn’t enhanced or enriched the web, it’s just made it barely tolerable for most of us.
Hardypress, as it stands, fits a specific need. I don’t know what percentage of WordPress users need it, but I do know that very few attributes fit 99% of websites or WordPress sites. So we can agree, it will be useful to some folks. Maybe you are one of them! But there is a much larger WordPress community of site operators that do not need it.