In an ideal world, this is how things would work. The problem is, those features were created for customers. They will not take kindly to those features being r

In an ideal world, this is how things would work. The problem is, those features were created for customers. They will not take kindly to those features being removed. And no-one wants to lose customers. This is why the second law of thermodynamics applies also to software engineering. Entropy only increases.