Patrick Rhone:
In the world of hardware and software, the companies, developers, and tools that get it right weigh the cost of adding features heavily and take every feature addition under great consideration. In fact, they reject most feature requests right out of the starting gate. They appreciate feature requests but more often than not read them and ignore them. They simply let the signal rise above the noise to determine what features to add. When they do add a feature, they do it in the most unobtrusive and seamless way possible. They are careful to make sure the value far outweighs the cost.
Creating anything that people interact with involves the process of finding what is necessary. We revise and simplify things for a reason; the quality gained from removing the extraneous is worth more than the functionality that is lost.