Comment by darkerside

While this can and does suck when it happens to you, this is exactly what it takes to keep products focused so they don't die death by a thousand cuts (or feature requests). For every awesome feature embarked upon, there's an opportunity cost of bug fixes, stability updates, tech debt reductions, and other inglorious but necessary work. Aggressively de-scoping is the difficult but necessary work of keeping a product alive in a competitive marketplace. And yes, it's a marketplace even if the product is open source.