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creeping elegance
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n. Describes a tendency for parts of a design to become elegant past the
point of diminishing return, something which often happens at the expense of
the less interesting parts of the design, the schedule, and other things
deemed important in the Real World. See also creeping featurism ,
second-system effect , tense.