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There will always be technical debt because of Software Gravity(http://brianknapp.me/software-gravity/) and the Katamari Damacy Effect(http://brianknapp.me/katamari-damacy-effect/). Both drive the natural Evolution of Software(http://devblog.procore.com/dev/evolution-of-software-applica...)



Yes, and systems that one might refer to as 'disruptive' often get traction because they don't have the same gravitational pull as the incumbent. Maybe magnetism is a better term because feature richness often correlates with complexity, and that can attract and repel people.


The Katamari Damacy Effect is the same as Creeping Featurism.




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