feature creep in English

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          "text": "Our sales division promised our client a feature in our software that is currently not feasible for us to implement, which will certainly lead to feature creep."
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        "The tendency of a design project or product cycle to accumulate more and more features or details, rather than to be completed and released at a more basic level."
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          "word": "creeping elegance"
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          "word": "scope creep"
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      "word": "creeping featurism"
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"feature creep" meaning in English

Noun