The act of incessantly churning out software features that nobody ever asked for under the delusion that that is the solution to all problems ever. Often, such features are solutions looking for problems. It is usually seen in software companies where the person or people in charge are so far detached from reality that their lack of intuitive understanding of the problem space and ignorance manifest as a never ending stream of pointless features, generally on the UI, that slowly corrode the software.
I wish the flashlight app stopped feachurning to become a social network, payments, banking, and crypto trading app, all rolled into one.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)