Simplicity is not merely measured in the "number of things" you have, it's contextual. Otherwise we'd all be writing in binary representations because base two

Simplicity is not merely measured in the "number of things" you have, it's contextual. Otherwise we'd all be writing in binary representations because base two is the simplest way to communicate information. Simplicity is also "how many things" it takes to express an idea or do a useful thing. In many ways, written Chinese is simpler than written English.