> Why has this happened? I think it's the missing features. I have a more, I guess, cynical explanation. I think developers, even the ones who proclaim otherw

> Why has this happened? I think it's the missing features. I have a more, I guess, cynical explanation. I think developers, even the ones who proclaim otherwise, love complexity. It suits their egos to think they are working on something really complicated that only they understand. They will still say its simple, but it is only so after transcending some barrier of understanding that nobody except them has. So this is how things work: if a technology is created that actually is simple (eg: Java), developers will immediately start adding layers of complexity. They will add more and more layers right up until the point where they themselves, can no longer understand it. This is what I think of as the "complexity budget". Only when the complexity budget is fully consumed, intellectually satisfied, they will stop, and start to refactor, to make it "simpler". If you want a second example, take a look at the React ecosystem. React fans will tell you how simple it is. How you can use React by only knowing Javascript and two or three simple rules. Then have a look at what any real world React project actually looks like and observe the 17 layers of complexity they added on top.