This comment is a deathflag which you should become attuned to, so you can stay ahead of the curve. Telemetry driven catabolism is a feedback loop which can not

This comment is a deathflag which you should become attuned to, so you can stay ahead of the curve. Telemetry driven catabolism is a feedback loop which can not be halted once it's begun. What's happening under the surface is that the project has reached the maximum complexity it ever can, after which it collapses being unable to maintain even low-maintanance features, let alone add new ones. Complexity unlike funding is fundamental, and just throwing money at it will not halt the process. Seeing rude obstructionist PR types showing up on bugzilla was the first outward facing symptom there was a cultural problem driven by an underlying material problem. An insider could probably tell you an even earlier warning sign. As the project collapses it will grow tumors (eg Pocket). Totally random pieces of junk code which don't coherently belong to the base project. In the terminal stage it loses its ability to even remove features, or bolt on tumors. Tweaking the logo, churning the UI, and redesigning the website are the only actions the zombie project is physically able to take. So that's what it does.