The OP didn’t advocate for dumbing down the project, it advocated for writing understandable code and avoiding “clever” code where possible. More often than not

The OP didn’t advocate for dumbing down the project, it advocated for writing understandable code and avoiding “clever” code where possible. More often than not “clever” code is all about “local cleverness”, and it’s entirely avoidable. Interesting projects have inherent global complexity (in addition to some unavoidable local highly complex places), and there is no need to introduce unnecessary complexity by using smart tricks. In these cases you won’t go very far if the developers are replaceable cogs, you’ll still need senior intelligent, autonomous people.