Comment by cmiles8

A lot of software is like this. You can build a bare bones but functional version for 1x investment or something that addresses every bell and whistle (often with market research saying it’s really needed) for 1000x. The 1000x version is better, but not remotely 1000x better.

A lot of SaaS has turned into this too. Take a bloated monstrosity like Salesforce and I bet 95% of customers would be very happy with a “bare bones” version that costs 1 10th the price.