The "land and expand" strategy explains why software grows unnecessary features

Link: lobste.rs/s/oznirn/redis_cost_ambition Mitchell Hashimoto (founder of HashiCorp, creator of Vagrant and Ghostty) commenting on why software products often lose their core identity and grow irrelevant features: The cost (cognitive, time, risk, money, etc.) of adopting a new thing is significantly higher than expanding an old thing. You see this even without any commercial interests. For example, one I've spoken publicly on is how many programming languages became a least-common-denomin