Personally I think it’s ok to reflexively question complexity on a vast majority of projects. Most engineers get excited about engineering stuff, that’s a goo

Personally I think it’s ok to reflexively question complexity on a vast majority of projects. Most engineers get excited about engineering stuff, that’s a good thing but in my experience, a ton of premature optimization can happen before you get your product in front of users. Personally I think working prototypes that you can throw it front of a non technical person should always be the initial state of a project if possible. It’s much easier for folks to grok complexity when it’s tied to a functional prototype and discussions come up about its limitations.