There is a kind of complexity worship I've noticed, but my accounting of it is that it comes from folks who aren't aware of the methods of simplification employ

There is a kind of complexity worship I've noticed, but my accounting of it is that it comes from folks who aren't aware of the methods of simplification employed by those successfully wrangling complex subjects/systems; absent an alternate explanation, they assume that the mind of the complexity wrangler is fundamentally different from their own. In other words, rather than imagining the complexity wrangler inventing layers of simplifying abstractions, they imagine him/her to just have a radically extended short-term memory or something on those lines. The article points out the case of architects worshipping complexity in some cases by essentially over-engineering. I think this is a mistaken explanation. I think it's more of a fear-driven thing: the architect is like, "Oh shit, this problem I'm gonna be dealing with is gonna be really complicated; I'd better throw everything I've got at it!"