beloved of {management}, they are generally ignored.

:creep: /v./ To advance, grow, or multiply inexorably. In
hackish usage this verb has overtones of menace and silliness,
evoking the creeping horrors of low-budget monster movies.

:creeping elegance: /n./ Describes a tendency for parts of a
design to become {elegant} past the point of diminishing return,
something which often happens at the expense of the less
interesting parts of the design, the schedule, and other things
deemed important in the {Real World}. See also {creeping
featurism}, {second-system effect}, {tense}.

:creeping featurism: /kree'ping fee'chr-izm/ /n./
1. Describes a systematic tendency to load more {chrome} and
{feature}s onto systems at the expense of whatever elegance they
may have possessed when originally designed. See also {feeping
creaturism}. "You know, the main problem with {BSD} Unix has
always been creeping featurism." 2. More generally, the tendency
for anything complicated to become even more complicated because
people keep saying "Gee, it would be even better if it had this
feature too". (See {feature}.) The result is usually a
patchwork because it grew one ad-hoc step at a time, rather than
being planned. Planning is a lot of work, but it's easy to add
just one extra little feature to help someone ... and then
another ... and another.... When creeping featurism gets
out of hand, it's like a cancer. Usually this term is used to
describe computer programs, but it could also be said of the
federal government, the IRS 1040 form, and new cars. A similar
phenomenon sometimes afflicts conscious redesigns; see