Ah yes, "boiling the frog". It's a colloquial metaphor in English (possibly other languages?).
The idea is that if you throw a frog in boiling water it will attempt to jump out immediately, but if you set one in water at room temperature and slowly bring it to a boil it won't notice what is happening and allow itself to be slowly boiled to death.
A real world example of the metaphor would come from large corporate "engineering process" steps for workflows. Things usually start out simple, with there only being say, 10 unique steps in a process. Then new steps keep getting added in each year as "problems" or "gaps" in the current process are identified. After a decade or so the 10 steps in now 100 steps, and the veteran project managers at the company are baffled as to why what used to take 4 days now takes 4 weeks. Like the frog, they didn't notice the slow gradual change, but as human beings, they notice the big change when they compare now to a decade ago.
I love it when things get difficult; after all, difficult pays the mortgage. - Dr. Keith Whites
I hate it when things get difficult, so I'll just sell my house and rent cheap instead. - perldigious
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