[Aperocky]

90-95% of all projects suffer this fate, and it didn't start with LLM. These projects include major commercial successes such as certain popular desktop Operating System and are essentially the standard state for many web services.

The projects that keep it simple and bare-necessity are either the ones that have scaled to enormous size (and complexity had to be removed for it to work), or ones that had strong philosophical and opinionated guardians, they are quite rare in practice.