Comment by fzeroracer

We had something like this where I last worked. Whenever we were adding new features or adding things that had potential for significant regressions, we were expected to add feature flags around the change/addition and set an expiration date for three months or so in advance. Once that rolled around, we'd either remove the old path or evaluate if it was necessary to have around as a permanent feature.

I think it worked out really well even though it increased the administrative overhead. We were always able to quickly revert behavior without needing to push code and it let us gradually shrink a lot of the legacy features we had on the project.