I guess a generous reading of "complex" versus "complicated": Complex - a plain adjective. It's just how the thing is. Complicated - past tense of the verb "t

I guess a generous reading of "complex" versus "complicated": Complex - a plain adjective. It's just how the thing is. Complicated - past tense of the verb "to complicate," used as an adjective. Somebody made this complicated. But yeah, I still prefer thinking of inherent and accidental complexity. Expresses the actual idea directly.