What Does Feature Creep Mean?
Feature creep refers to software or hardware that becomes complicated and difficult to use as a result of too many features. In addition to poorer usability, feature creep can cause a product to actually become less stable because of unintended results between the various components.
Techopedia Explains Feature Creep
The term is primarily used in reference to software, but can also be used for hardware. The thing about software packages is that the software vendor needs to keep on releasing new versions in order to keep generating revenue. It’s hard to sell a new version that doesn’t do “something” that the old version did not. As a result, more and more features are included even though the average user might never use them.
