>Occasionally there will be a complex problem with a simple solution. Whenever this has happened in my experience, it's come with the monkey's-paw irony that w

>Occasionally there will be a complex problem with a simple solution. Whenever this has happened in my experience, it's come with the monkey's-paw irony that while the solution is simple, the reason why it's a solution, or at least a complete solution, is not. That almost makes it worse - people who aren't intimately familiar with the problem will see the simple solution, think the problem must have been similarly easy to understand, and then think that there must be something wrong with the solution.