Overcomplicated designs is like the rocket equation for software engineering. Adding unnecessary abstractions, caching layers, abstract business logic, etc isn'

Overcomplicated designs is like the rocket equation for software engineering. Adding unnecessary abstractions, caching layers, abstract business logic, etc isn't an additive effect, it's a multiplicative one. This is how you take something that could have been a million dollar project and turn it into a billion dollar project that is completely broken on launch like healthcare.gov was.