Comment by cyberax

Yeah, agreed. We need another word for that. Literally everybody in the industry is affected by this.

Typically it goes like this: you make a good UI that users like and release your product. The product manager gets rightfully promoted and starts working on other stuff.

A new manager comes in, and they can't really do much. The UI is already close to perfect, after all. So they do a major UI overhaul that inevitably removes/hides functionality and makes things worse.