I appreciate you pessimism, it help to see the other side of the coin.

Surely I won't even say a word to my boss for requesting blatantly useless features, but from what I can say about my job, we have a software with, at least, 50 quite complex features, requested for "matching the market" that are used by a single customer at most and we have to adapt them without questioning the logic of such requests just to please them and ended up building lot of incompatibile systems that can only be thrown away at best if a single customer leaves.

What you say is absolutely right if there was someone with a brain taking decisions, my post is more a way to vent my frustrations.

My lesson learned is that I won't let my passion projects ever come close to such a situation, once it reaches the "it works as I want", I'll stop adding more to it, unless I need to.

As an example, I've built an app for myself only, and I never touched the code for almost a year, it was "perfect" for my needs, then I needed it to sync across devices (it is a local first app) and now I've added a sync system for it, it's a new feature, but it still does just what originally needed and nothing more. If I needed more I'd just make something else to use along side that one.

I hope this example can help you understand my reasoning.

Also, the definition of perfection is highly personal, what would you consider "perfect"?

I'm really interested in other viewpoints. 😎