[smitty1e]

Compulsive over-engineering is by no means an IT-centric problem.

It takes substantial wisdom to arrive at an 80% solution and cease fannying about.

[xyproto]

And the people that brings this wisdom also brings few or no metrics that are appreciated by management.

[fisf]

The people who push the other direction also bring few or no metrics. I.e. there is often no reason to add <bag of features>, except a customer (who didn't buy the product yet) mentioned them as nice to have during initial sales talks.