So do I and I disagree. I've often seen people make this claim only to have their "simple" rewrite crash and burn. They assumed the requirements were X and the

So do I and I disagree. I've often seen people make this claim only to have their "simple" rewrite crash and burn. They assumed the requirements were X and the system was overly complex for X. The requirements were in fact X+Y+Z+W and the system was complex to satisfy all those requirements. I've found that approaching these with the question of "what drove them to implement such a system" leads to much more enlightenment than going from the point of "they're idiots for implementing it this way."