A timely reminder article for all new entrepreneurs, however, I wouldn't just point the finger of blame at small dev team/single developers falling fowl of this issue: I'd also highlight that it goes much wider and deeper than that.
From one man dev 'teams', up to corporate business/B2B/B2C all Apps, in fact, all applications regardless of platform/device have all at some point in their life pretty much suffered feature creep. We all understand businesses, no matter of size or scale all require revenue, so its only logical the as sales begin to level/curve off, the money counters begin to get fearful (its no secret that most CEO/Board Members/upper management are from strictly numbers based background, eg. accountants, finance, banking..). So from the top down, in come the 'must-have' feature sets and target requirements, and not as they should more naturally be created: in through the front door as your client/customer.
And thats just one small angle in my articulation above, Ive not even scratched the surface of other variables at play.
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