I go with "baggage" for this reason. It's stuff that you need to bring along every time you move forward and the more you have the more you have to bring forwa

I go with "baggage" for this reason. It's stuff that you need to bring along every time you move forward and the more you have the more you have to bring forward each time. Getting rid of it implies a check to see if you need it and some work to do that (while you can wholesale throw away things, sometimes you'll find that you've thrown away some important functionality).