creeping featuritis

/kreeping fee'chri:`t@s/ , n. Variant of creeping featurism , with its own
spoonerization: feeping creaturitis. Some people like to reserve this form
for the disease as it actually manifests in software or hardware, as opposed
to the lurking general tendency in designers' minds. (After all, -ism means
condition or pursuit of , whereas -itis usually means inflammation of.

