Moth or cockroach? I feel the authors are being polite. Not doing this provides a substantial amount of motivation for choices I make in small projects I do.

Moth or cockroach? I feel the authors are being polite. Not doing this provides a substantial amount of motivation for choices I make in small projects I do. While yet to think of a blog post or snazzy term for this, which won't be posted on Medium, every action, every feature, is one to consider for the value it adds, not just it for the sake of it. And every choice not to do something is equally a choice. Should login be via Google, Facebook, email, other? Why is login necessary? Could value for services be provided with no need for login, 80% of value, 60%, then if so, and if integrating to 3rd party services what value does that add? And what does it take away in getting padlocked to a walled ecosystem that can be slammed shut with no recourse, be that Alphabet, Tencent, or any other? Do I need to access your location and photos for a todo app? If so, that's not a todo app, or some pretty poorly thought-out feature creep is being build in from the start. Is having access to your contacts going to make me the next unicorn? It's been done already. Too competitive today for the next big thing which will be something different anyway, the next big iteration in the sense of not being very revolutionary at all. Has the potential for liability been thought of when sloppy code deletes valuable pictures, or causes a device failure that does so? The noun that was 'creativity' has been replaced by the corporate-safe one-step-at-a-time 'innovation'. Nobody got fired for innovating. Marketers get bonuses for dressing up the mediocre-inducing term innovation as something remotely creative. The future is here and was here all along. It's for us to see.