> Features are celebrated and make money I like your take, but I'm not 100% sure this is accurate. Obviously to some extent features make money, and "featurel

> Features are celebrated and make money I like your take, but I'm not 100% sure this is accurate. Obviously to some extent features make money, and "featureless" software by definition couldn't exist. But I think a lot of software contains features that don't drive demand at all - the worst contender for this that I can think of is [Microsoft Teams' Together Mode](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/teams-together-mode https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/teams-togeth...) which I doubt has led to a single sale of the product worldwide, but probably adds some maintenance burden. I think a bigger part is, like you mentioned, the organisation of companies. Engineers like building things, and although maintaining software and improving performance can be rewarding, you'd struggle to find developers that are happy to only do that. Features also lead to promotions more than maintenance, so there's a strong personal incentive to create features even if they don't have a business benefit.