You can't remove things by committee, you can only add things by committee.

It's easy to add via consensus, it's very hard to subtract via consensus.

The one team that will lose their feature will see it as an existential threat.

The overall benefit of a better-scoped thing is diffuse.

It's easy to add "yet one more requirement" to plans.

To create means to curate means to remove.

That has to be done by an author.

Vetocracies will never ship simple things.

Curation isn't possible.

The ability to make opinionated judgment calls ("we simply won't have copy/paste") on subtraction to make a thing viable can only be done with an author.

Everything is a remix, and yet if all you have is an add operator and no subtract, there are certain things you can't get to.

Assembly theory includes some of these dynamics.