> Instead of really improving the product, features become checkboxes on the roadmap. Which eventually results in degrading the quality of the product, it becomes bloated, the UX becomes confusing (especially to new users), and existing features start to suffer because the "maintenance surface" becomes bigger and bigger

I side with you 100% on that

The meme about software being an act of non-stop bicycle reinvention has never been more true to life than it is now