Most toilets are too tall.

Most toilets are too tall.
This has terrible health implications, but it's a problem that most people don't care to solve. Especially not enough to replace our toilets with shorter ones.

So, the Squatty Potty gets to exist.

It sits in the gap between a societal shift toward "comfort height" toilets and the lagging awareness of our kinked sphincters.

Shorter toilets were unlikely to ever me more than a niche fixture.
Stashable stools, however, are easy upgrades to any throne.

Same problem, different implementation. One reached hundreds of millions in sales and the other was bound for the poop chute.