Upon re-reading the collected wisdom of the late. Col. Cooper, we stumbled across this:

We recently ran across an interesting new word, Schlimmbesserung. It describes the process of making something worse by "improving" it. That is a good word to have at the ready these days, since it covers the subject without the necessity of a long-winded explanation.

How ironic that it took the Germans, of all people, to simply Saint-Exupéry's famous comment on the matter ("In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away.") to a single word.