The consequences of accidental complexity are now much greater because everything's more intertwined, and the systems as a whole, larger. This puts us in "Gheng

The consequences of accidental complexity are now much greater because everything's more intertwined, and the systems as a whole, larger. This puts us in "Ghengis John" (John Boyd) territory, close to the point where we don't have enough attention to fix all the problems that arise, including from the fixes themselves. Probably you youngsters are actually better about not introducing complexity needlessly, since the consequences of doing so are ever more obvious.