I assume you remember Mark Dominus' rather more detailed rant on about the same point, when he talked about small changes that had obvious small advantages, but hidden, aggregate disadvantages, that did seem sensible to make, but he resisted.
I can't find a link now. At at least one point I read through the archives so I've read it all by now :) As I recall, he was talking about maintaining a simple PERL module or similar and people kept saying "why don't you just add this bit of functionality, look it's easy I'll do it" and in that or another post, also mentioned the difficulty of maintaining some documentation with a similar "look, i'll just add tthis bit, it'll be useful" problem, where each individual request is reasonable, but in aggregate makes the module so unweildy no-one wants to bother ot use it.
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I assume you remember Mark Dominus' rather more detailed rant on about the same point, when he talked about small changes that had obvious small advantages, but hidden, aggregate disadvantages, that did seem sensible to make, but he resisted.