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You forgot to mention that all the people who made the original product great left and all the ones which could make the successor great did not join.
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and now you can use AI to create even more unnecessary features even quicker.

i think that having teams for each product is an antipattern. if the team was purely a "mail task force", the workers could be placed to work on Exchange or the Azure related bullshit. But now, the Outlook team has to constantly create unnecessary work for itself.

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From my experience using Outlook, they could keep the Outlook team for bugfixes only and still have enough work for the next 5 years just improving/fixing the classic version.
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The will save bug-fixing as a work-reserve or future job security, and keep adding more visible/flashy new buggy/bloated features.
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This matches my experience as well. I see no lack of work to be done without necessitating additional features.
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