This also reminds me of OpenBSD, in particular Ted Unangst. He's famous for deleting features that add complexity without any significant benefit or are only us

This also reminds me of OpenBSD, in particular Ted Unangst. He's famous for deleting features that add complexity without any significant benefit or are only useful in a small number of edge cases. For instance, the replacement of sudo (with its massively complicated configuration syntax) with doas.