My experience is generally the opposite - software is usually complex because people lack the skills, time and/or inclination to make it less so. The problems t

My experience is generally the opposite - software is usually complex because people lack the skills, time and/or inclination to make it less so. The problems themselves are generally simple. The world is chock full of developers who want to reinvent the scroll bar, badly, in JavaScript and seriously, genuinely believe this is both a good idea and a wise use of their company's precious development time and money. It often looks akin to a bunch of civil engineers building a large rail bridge with no up-front design by making short-sighted decisions every two weeks as to which bit to add next, eventually sticking enough random bits of steel on to get a bicycle safely over it, before declaring it "finished".