One gets the feeling that Adams wasn't a very happy worker. After all, they're making the big bucks, they know way more than anyone else at the company, they know what they're doing. Stop joggling my elbow, kid. Of course, that's silly. Almost all really successful products are developed through skunkworks or otherwise without management attention, and only when they are finished does marketing move to quickly exploit the opportunity.
Any product is better than any nonproduct.
It's a simple matter of mathematics. In the astigmatic world of corporate foresight, the latter is a better bet.