Humans GET simplicity from extreme hyper complexity. Take a gas generator. Easy, add oil and gas and get electricity and these days they even come in a smoothe

Humans GET simplicity from extreme hyper complexity. Take a gas generator. Easy, add oil and gas and get electricity and these days they even come in a smoothed over plastic shell that makes it look like a toy. Inside, very complex, spark plugs, engine, coils, inverter. A hundred years of inventions packed into a 1.5' x 1.5' box. It's the same thing for complicated systems. Front end to back. No matter how ugly or how much you wish it was refactored - some exec knows it as a box where you put something in and magical inference comes out. Maybe that box actually causes real change in the physical world - like billions of packages being sent out all over the world. In the days of castles you would have similar systems managed by people. People that drag wooden carts of shit out of a castle. Carrying water around. Manually husking corn and wheat and what have you. No matter how far into the future we go, we will continue to get simple out of monstrous complexity. That's not the answer to your question - but it's just that the world will always lean towards going that way.