I once worked on a system where the senior engineer on the project had a dogmatic definition of simple. It was an MVC web application. He insisted that having

I once worked on a system where the senior engineer on the project had a dogmatic definition of simple. It was an MVC web application. He insisted that having any form of flow control or logic in views was too complex - it was simpler to regard all logic as application logic and put it in the controller. This meant that instead of one controller being able to drive multiple views, something as straightforward as rendering a table a row at a time required a dedicated controller action. That engineer's definition of simplicity produced an explosion of complexity in the codebase. That was when I came to understand that hand drills may be simple, but power drills are very useful.