It's not about the language. To me, the author is spot on here. It is only through experience that you begin to see all the ways in which complexity can creep

It's not about the language. To me, the author is spot on here. It is only through experience that you begin to see all the ways in which complexity can creep into a system, and why each and every one of them is bad. Unfortunately, almost every codebase I work on right now is more complex than it needs to be. To me, the zenith, "The simplest possible solution that does what is needed, but no more", helps a lot.