Sorry for my little pedantic observation: The author wants the word "simple" here, not "simplistic". The reason I even bring it up is that simplistic means ov

Sorry for my little pedantic observation: The author wants the word "simple" here, not "simplistic". The reason I even bring it up is that simplistic means overly simple, and that's a real problem in software development in my experience. Overly simple means you aren't actually dealing with significant issues the problem space. If anyone ends up using your simplistic software, they will have to solve the problems you ignore in a non-optimal way. Simplistic -- overly simple -- is the flip-side to overly complex and can cause just as many problems since it pushed extra complications elsewhere. What we'd like is software that is as simple as it can be, but no simpler.