Its important to remember that complexity matters at all levels of abstraction and you don't improve things by merely moving it from the level you are looking t

Its important to remember that complexity matters at all levels of abstraction and you don't improve things by merely moving it from the level you are looking to one you are ignoring. Simplifying your depgraph by writing on big ball of mud means pushing the complexity down. Instead of a complex module graph, you have a complex dependency graph between variables/functions/whatever in your mudball. Oversimplify your individual modules and you complexify your module graph, or even your production infrastructure (one-line microservices anyone?). Forced to choose, I would prefer a mudball to dependency hell. But really I would like the complexity to be intelligently and somewhat evenly distributed to each level.