In implementation terms there are simple ways and unnecessarily complex ways of doing things. As per my 1st post. In product terms there are definitely things

In implementation terms there are simple ways and unnecessarily complex ways of doing things. As per my 1st post. In product terms there are definitely things that get pushed in that have no value, and that happens when there's too much cash around (hence "It is a price which the very rich find most hard to pay"). An actual example, a 'big data' project I was involved in. Loadsa big data software thrown at a pile of hardware. End result, fuck all of worth because it barely ran. A simpler system would have been a single decently configured and provisioned server which would have run so much faster (and cost a tiny fraction of the behemoth we actually built). I take your point about chess though. I think with a little discussion (time for which I guess neither of us have) we could come to an understanding and quite likely an agreement.