​ If you're building anywhere near an established player, the fear is that they out-feature you. So the reflex is to race them on the feature list. I've come around to thinking that's exactly the game you can't win and shouldn't play. Why feature-racing a bigger competitor is a trap: They have more engineers, so any feature you ship, they can ship too, and eventually will. Competing on breadth is competing on the one axis where their size is an advantage. You spread thin trying to m...