He would have started a group of people and got them to each do that, and then connected with the winners of the hundreds or thousands of attempts and then taken credit for it.

Jobs literally did get a group of people together and did not do that. He built a company where all the products contributed to the vision of personal computing; either personal computers or personal computer accessories.

The thing people seem to forget about Jobs is that he really was that good, that obsessive/dedicated and that visionary. It's that simple.

His process resulted in some of the most transformative products humanity has ever known.

True, but lots of people who were less talented failed with this approach. It's always a bad idea to look for advice from outliers.