There are unfortunately a lot of career upsides to making things more difficult and complex than they need to be. Making things simple and straightforward is o

There are unfortunately a lot of career upsides to making things more difficult and complex than they need to be. Making things simple and straightforward is often has neutral career outcomes at best, and if you consider the downstream effects, can actually be negative (oh he did that thing we all thought would be super difficult and look how straightforward it turned out to be; must not be that hard).