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> At some point there is no marginal return for adding complexity, or the return on maintaining the complexity becomes negative, so the complexity is no longer
by api 10y ago
> At some point there is no marginal return for adding complexity, or the return on maintaining the complexity becomes negative, so the complexity is no longer worth maintaining. Collapse.
This also seems to happen to software, which is why we keep rewriting the ecosystem every 10-20 years.