I have seen plenty of "my backlog has never been shorter" comments here.

I'm interested in how that turns out 6 months later.

In my team, we have plenty of enhancement requests from users. We address those that make obvious sense and are trivial to do but withhold from others, even though the code change itself is likely small. Because we don't know if there is more than a single user that can actually benefit from it, if it has unintended consequences, or if it causes maintainence issue down the road.

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ctoth 39 minutes ago | parent [-]

> but withhold from others, even though the code change itself is likely small.

Prediction: programming is going to change massively not only because the cost of creating code will go down, but because people are so tired of this sort of gatekeeping "we know better" from programmers.

	▲	datadrivenangel a few seconds ago \| parent \| next [-]
		And the software without gatekeepers will be regarded as confusing and complicated or buggy. The work to go from software to usable software system is vast.
	▲	eterm 18 minutes ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		What you're describing as "gatekeeping" is actually Product Ownership and should be applauded, because the alternative is a product owner who abdicates responsibility to the customer.
	▲	mjr00 28 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> Prediction: programming is going to change massively not only because the cost of creating code will go down, but because people are so tired of this sort of gatekeeping "we know better" from programmers. I assume the "gatekeeping" decision to not implement a feature request is coming from someone responsible for the product, not from a developer.