Is adding more features killing your user onboarding?

Early on, every time a prospect requested a feature, we built it to close the deal. Within six months, our dashboard was cluttered, and new signups kept getting confused during their first login.

​We recently stripped away 40% of the minor features and refocused the entire workflow on solving just one core problem. Onboarding completion jumped almost overnight.

​Do founders overcomplicate their products too early, or is a broad feature set necessary to compete today?