I don't see how anyone would draw this conclusion from the facts given. They haven't had high-profile engineering-centric hires in the past year because there h

I don't see how anyone would draw this conclusion from the facts given. They haven't had high-profile engineering-centric hires in the past year because there haven't been any high-profile engineering vacancies. In any event, not trying to have the most features is a good thing. It's pointless to have the most features if the features aren't appropriate for the product. A big part of good product design is making sure that every feature that is in the product has a damn good reason for being there. Companies that pursue feature bloat for its own sake are usually just trying to pad out their marketing blurbs, or have a screwed-up management structure that incentivizes everyone involved to cram their pet features into everything for the sake of internal corporate politics. Feature creep isn't the sign of high tech products, it's the sign of an unhealthy organization that doesn't know (or care?) what it's actually creating.