I'm kinda the opposite. Way too many times I've seen "upgrades" actively remove things I liked and add things I hate. I hold off on letting mobile apps update because they almost always get worse, not better.
I think it was Ted Neward who argued that libraries should come with a core and ancillary packages. Only the stuff really necessary and broadly popular goes into the base library, and all of the low use features should go into one or more ancillary libraries.
I still think this is the way to go, but it does move some of the problem around in that you have to pick good cleave lines such that people aren’t forced to pull 5 libraries in for 5 features they need. You want one software domain to use two or three and another to use an overlapping set of three.
