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We had plenty of features and compared favorably with competitors. Adding more features would have little impact on moving more people through the sequence of publishing unless those features helped users get over the first hurdles, and few did.
You should never be religious about methods of any kind. The only sane way to work is to let the project define the plan. Only a fool chooses tools before studying the job to be done.
Remote work demands social proactivity.
Working remotely mellowed everything out, dropping the intensity of both the highs and the lows. Depending on your previous experience, this made things better or worse.
The natural mistake engineers make is to build from the bottom up. They leave the user interface last, assuming it is the least complex technology. This is wrong. Humans are much more complex than software, and since the interface has to interact with people, it's the most difficult to do well.
