> ...my observation is that about 95% of software developers have a complexity fetish. Agreed. Further, I've been ridiculed throughout my career for my effort

> ...my observation is that about 95% of software developers have a complexity fetish. Agreed. Further, I've been ridiculed throughout my career for my efforts to simplify. Nominally smart people just can't grasp that simplifying is harder. They'll dismiss the result, not appreciating the process.