You can't compare a mechanical watch to a modern web app. If you told the people building the modern web app were allowed to make one release per decade and not

You can't compare a mechanical watch to a modern web app. If you told the people building the modern web app were allowed to make one release per decade and not allowed to "maintain it" you would see the feature list drop off, the release date shoot out. If you have different constraints, you get a different result.