The pendulum can swing the other way too, where "bright" developers over-engineer their solutions. It's either to avoid boredom or "just in case" some future fe

The pendulum can swing the other way too, where "bright" developers over-engineer their solutions. It's either to avoid boredom or "just in case" some future feature is added. I've spent a fair bit of time working with code in some pretty "unglamorous" industries - banking, insurance, mining etc. One of the issues I regularly see is some huge rube-goldberg steamroller of an app that only needs to crack a small nut. These developers are just as dangerous in my view.