Softwares state is depending on how close it is to the actual/perceived economic hot-loop in the product. Thats where features grow, were software is properly

Softwares state is depending on how close it is to the actual/perceived economic hot-loop in the product. Thats where features grow, were software is properly maintained and tested. The further away it is from this route, the more it becomes a stagnant resource backwater, until the software - which might be alive in other sections, actually starts to die and bitrot, basically a forked away stand alone thing, with its own library, tucked into a corner, visited only on rare occasions.