{second-system effect}. See also {creeping elegance}.

:creeping featuritis: /kree'ping fee'-chr-i:`t*s/ /n./
Variant of {creeping featurism}, with its own spoonerization:
`feeping creaturitis'. Some people like to reserve this form for
the disease as it actually manifests in software or hardware, as
opposed to the lurking general tendency in designers' minds.
(After all, -ism means `condition' or `pursuit of', whereas
-itis usually means `inflammation of'.)

:cretin: /kret'in/ or /kree'tn/ /n./ Congenital {loser};
an obnoxious person; someone who can't do anything right. It has
been observed that many American hackers tend to favor the British
pronunciation /kret'in/ over standard American /kree'tn/; it is
thought this may be due to the insidious phonetic influence of
Monty Python's Flying Circus.

:cretinous: /kret'n-*s/ or /kreet'n-*s/ /adj./ Wrong;
stupid; non-functional; very poorly designed. Also used
pejoratively of people. See {dread high-bit disease} for an
example. Approximate synonyms: {bletcherous}, {bagbiting}
{losing}, {brain-damaged}.

:crippleware: /n./ 1. Software that has some important
functionality deliberately removed, so as to entice potential users
to pay for a working version. 2. [Cambridge] Variety of
{guiltware} that exhorts you to donate to some charity (compare
{careware}, {nagware}). 3. Hardware deliberately crippled,
which can be upgraded to a more expensive model by a trivial change
(e.g., cutting a jumper).