In terms of your analogy, do you want more expensive cars that less people have?
Software developers could spend more time optimizing their code. But that means that are spending less time elsewhere, fixing bugs, adding features, developing other products.
“The new format bar” for slack and “huddles” (perhaps less antagonisingly) are examples of things that Slack has done seemingly to prove they’re still working on the program.
Despite the the features not being needed in the slightest.
IMO huddles happened because the pandemic moved so many more people remote that the need for a water-cooler replacement became much more obvious.