Architecture & practice·Complexity and how it accumulates
the ticket was done on Tuesday and you spent Thursday adding polish nobody asked for.
Gold plating
Continuing to add refinement past the point the requirement was met. It differs from over-engineering in motive: over-engineering is fear of the future, gold plating is craft or boredom aimed at something no user values. It shows up in delivery arguments because the cost is not the extra work but the schedule it silently consumed, which nobody agreed to spend.