From my experience complexity often hides hidden and undocumented requirements, which will only become apparent after the complexity is removed. However, I've

From my experience complexity often hides hidden and undocumented requirements, which will only become apparent after the complexity is removed. However, I've also seen simple pages that are line by line copies of tutorials for whole sites, pared down to a single page. Frameworks aren't bad, unstructured working practices and environments often breed this sort of toxicity in code.