> overengineering has killed more products than the absence of good development practices But as the author defines overengineering, it is clearly not a good d

> overengineering has killed more products than the absence of good development practices But as the author defines overengineering, it is clearly not a good development practice. Further, there is no evidence provided to support the claim. Maybe a truer lesson is that the authors work suffers under too much scrutiny. We're all better off imagining a similar thesis and then imagining it is actually true.