My experience with simplicity is that it requires greater effort. Simple is not easy. As such, people dedicated to the task of effort avoidance will find a way

My experience with simplicity is that it requires greater effort. Simple is not easy. As such, people dedicated to the task of effort avoidance will find a way to avoid increased simplicity. The justifications and qualifiers are creative and elaborate often themselves taking great effort, often greater effort than that they originally sought to avoid. I see this behavior repeated so frequently in software and with such profound conviction. A brief example is a single method call from a language or platform supplied API used to solve a problem instead of the entirety of a large framework. The heresy of such a disgusting travesty.