There's definitely a mindset on Chrome that:

- any feature, no matter how small, has some cost (code size, testing, cognitive complexity, etc), and frequently contributes in some way to making the product and/or other development slower. - as a developer, user, product manager etc, it's up to you to figure out how to convince other people your change is a good idea, and how your change will be maintained going forward, if you have to switch projects for instance.

We have a long history on the Chrome team of deleting code that was only relevant to one or two developers and those developers moved onto something else. It's the only way to stay sane at our scale, frankly, and we don't even do it as much as we should.