Originally Posted by AudioTrack
Oh, WOW, how perfectly does that describe what's going on here?
... and in so many products, actually.
We used to refer to "creeping featuritis", where any particular feature in itself is small and sane, but as one adds more of them, things gradually fall apart.

Often part of this comes about by what we used to call "marketing check-box syndrome". The perception, sadly probably correct, is that when a potential buyer is comparing final candidates for purchase, they've eliminated the "won't do the job" products and now need to make a final choice from the remaining products. The approach is then to compare the features list, whether or not those features are relevant, pertinent, useful, or whatever, and choose the product that seems to offer the most such check-boxes.

I said somewhere else in these fora, that we should be aiming for a bit more Occam's Razor. We should be aiming for the simplest solution to produce what's needed.

Ideally one distils the pure essence of what's needed to do the job fully and properly.
But those creeping features and marketing check-boxes can be an absolute nightmare.
Steve Jobs was right on an awful lot of things.

Last edited by Gordon Scott; 01/23/24 11:36 AM. Reason: typo
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