I think in many cases complexity just comes from lack of experience and poorly understood requirements. I've had my fair share of cases where I ended up implem

I think in many cases complexity just comes from lack of experience and poorly understood requirements. I've had my fair share of cases where I ended up implementing something needlessly complicated, only to later realize my approach was terribly misguided. I'd like to think I'm slowly improving on this as time goes on. The software world has a big discoverability problem. Even though I know there's probably prior art of what I'm working on, I don't always know where to look for it.