>I have lost track of the number of in-house / one-off frameworks I have seen that have been justified on the grounds of making thing simpler, but which have th

>I have lost track of the number of in-house / one-off frameworks I have seen that have been justified on the grounds of making thing simpler, but which have the opposite result. There's also 'simpler for me' vs holistically 'simpler'. A great example of this is a junior engineer comes into company, sees existing solutions and doesn't fully grok them, and jumps to 'lets throw this out and implement something better'. This is pretty common and the underlying motivation is indeed to make things simpler! But actually only from that individual's perspective.