There is a financial incentive to over-complicate your project or job because it's job security to make a mess. When I call for parsimony (KISS, YAGNI, DRY, etc

There is a financial incentive to over-complicate your project or job because it's job security to make a mess. When I call for parsimony (KISS, YAGNI, DRY, etc.), I am often given the stink-eye by IT staff. It's somehow "supposed to be" complicated. Warren Buffett often says a key secret to his success is saying "no" to all the temptations, fads, and BS that come his way or come the financial industry's way. In software, lemmings are following the bloat and fads because it's usually the customer that pays the price when software projects careen off the edge of a cliff, not the lemmings. Developers often use production applications as training grounds for the latest fads so they can get a bigger job somewhere else. Another problem is that web-standards are a poor fit for most everyday CRUD, requiring bloated buggy JS ui libraries to emulate GUI idioms that have been around for 3+ decades. A good state-ful GUI markup standards (and GUI browser/pluggin) would be quite helpful. And before you say Flash & Java Applets already tried that, they had two problems: first, they tried to be an entire virtual OS instead of just a display engine, overcomplicating themselves. Second, they resisted open standards. I've seen Oracle Forms do small and internal CRUD cheap and quick with small quantities of code. It may be esthetically ugly, but there was something keen about it as far as developer productivity. If you tell fashion to go to Hell, you can simplify much of dev. It was or acted like a "GUI browser" in that you install one client and then run gajillion apps off it, which is something desktop-based IDE's like Visual Basic, Delphi, and Clarion couldn't do. Oracle Forms had warts, but none that couldn't be fixed if somebody cared to fix them. (Oracle messed it up when they converted the client(s) from C to Java, as client-side Java made lots of mistakes.) And for all the talk of making apps mobile-friendly, too few use it in office work in my observation. Maybe a roaming sales force, but few others. YAGNI was shot bloody dead by bloating our UI libraries to cater to mobile. Bootstrap's cat-like personality can kiss a pack of hungry dogs.