Afraid of scope creep much?

I was just explaining to a fellow indie hacker that scope creep is something to be aware off. He never really planned in advance what he wanted to build exactly. Every time we talked, the feature set somehow shifted, widened.

Now, with an upcoming deadline to meet, I was explaining the fundamental problem with scope creep. For us, indie hackers, scope creep is a serious danger too, because it affects the duration of the project, the moment of truth and our emotional position towards the project.

While linking to the wikipedia page I found a very curious note about the positive sides of scope creep:

Scope creep can occasionally have incidentally positive results. For example, the video game The Elder Scrolls: Arena was originally intended to be a "medieval style gladiator game",[3] but due to scope creep, the game quickly expanded into an open-world, epic role-playing game (without the titular arena combat at all), spawning several successful sequels of increasing complexity.

I used to be a passionate gamer and really loved the Elder Scrolls series. So this fact was shocking to say the least. The only reason the series was a success was due to scope creep..

Looks like sometimes losing control of the creep is beneficial too, might as well keep that in mind. Allow yourself to pay more attention to a feature, the ux or whatever you think is important to you.