There comes a time in a project's life cycle, especially an API, when a bunch of cruft builds up around it. The more poorly directed development is, the quicker this happens (pretty much it's happening immediately, also don't be upset if your project has cruft to it, it happens to pretty much everyone). The more developers there are, the more cruft there is. It's all about predicting the future, and programmers think they can. They are so clever they know exactly what their scope document says, [...]