[snoman]

> I don't think there is a "technical profit" to be had, though.

Ostensibly, every net-new feature increases the pool of people for whom the software, as a whole, solves a problem. The performance and usability of that feature further adds to that.* I'd argue that is technical profit, and is realized into real profit when it converts to purchases/subscriptions/whatnot.

[1] For the sake of argument I'm assuming a scenario where the feature and its performance/usability is positively received.