Ideas must change in response to feedback from the problem to be solved.
The initial idea and its nth iteration are downstream from the real problem. What matters, therefore, is the iterative execution of those solutions. So instead of basing our judgment on the quality of the idea, we should rely on the execution ability because that is fairly constant in the development loop.
If you end up on the far-side of an idea-driven development process, you'll have solutions looking for a problem.
The initial idea and its nth iteration are downstream from the real problem. What matters, therefore, is the iterative execution of those solutions. So instead of basing our judgment on the quality of the idea, we should rely on the execution ability because that is fairly constant in the development loop.
If you end up on the far-side of an idea-driven development process, you'll have solutions looking for a problem.