Taoists discovered this phenomenon thousands of years ago and called it overdevelopment. And it's universal for all processes under the Sun. There simply isn't infinite progress in one direction, because it's a circle. The ideal way is to switch one circle for another at its peak development, but recognition of that point requires using the heart, not the brain.
This is a large part of the discussions in the first one or two interviews in Interviews with Francis Bacon by David Sylvester. Bacon talks about pushing to the limits of adding more to a work until it's good, and then if taken too far it ruins the work. And only very rarely can he pull it back around to good.
My wife is an oil painter, abstract expressionism, and she will constantly worry if something is done. And there have been glorious paintings ruined by one last thing.
