Although I agree entirely, the direct answer to your question is: Because that's much more difficult.
S3stat pays my rent, and it took a weekend to build. It's dead boring, but there's a market for it so people pay money.
Blogabond is still fun to play with 4 years in, was technically hard when I built it, and thousands of people use it and love it. When I tried putting ads on it, it brought in maybe two bucks a day.
So yeah, boring stuff makes you money, even if it's not that difficult.
As a side note, my goodness please tell me you're putting more time and effort into S3Stat. I think you are seriously undervaluing it. Dressing it up with something prettier than webstats would, in my mind help you pay for a lot more than rent.
Good work.
Good to hear I'm doing my part to put a roof over the head of a fellow hacker ;]