This relates to the "version 2.0" dilemma. Version 1 of a program works well enough to make money, so that team gets to make a version 2. But they try to "red

This relates to the "version 2.0" dilemma. Version 1 of a program works well enough to make money, so that team gets to make a version 2. But they try to "redo it right" by making their product do everything conceivable (think emacs), but it's slow and buggy and in the practical ways, worse than 1. Version 3 (where they learn from version 2 how to make it elegant) doesn't get written because the team gets split up because v2 was such a failure. Another example of the v2 problem is Winamp.