I don't understand how you were able to make the jump to "I don't like tools that lie about complexity" to "I want to build tools from scratch", but I share GP'

I don't understand how you were able to make the jump to "I don't like tools that lie about complexity" to "I want to build tools from scratch", but I share GP's complaints. The problem is clearly with tools that promise simplicity for users but are actually only simple for the creators of the tools themselves. For end users there's still a lot of complexity. And it's not that complexity is a problem per se. It's just that it exists on multiple levels. And some of those tools aren't abstracting much or anything at those levels. They're often just providing yet another thin API for something that's still complex for their users, so they haven't really made the hard thing simple, maybe they simplified the 10% of it that don't matter at the user's scale. If anything they introduced even more complexity. Aka, leaky abstractions. Of course, YMMV.