Yep, the danger of becoming a zealot and simplifying components too much is it can increase complexity of the system as a whole. It's not an additive property,

Yep, the danger of becoming a zealot and simplifying components too much is it can increase complexity of the system as a whole. It's not an additive property, you need to look at it from different angles and layers and understand how it leverages. Gos lack of generics being a common example of this. Another example: UDP is less complex than TCP - until you experience packet loss and reinvent re-transmission yourself in the application layer.