This may happen in every field, but front-end suffered this enormously for the last ~20 years! (JavaScript fatigue, anyone?) I think there is a spectrum with t

This may happen in every field, but front-end suffered this enormously for the last ~20 years! (JavaScript fatigue, anyone?) I think there is a spectrum with two opposite poles: The ones that think that a complex problem requires a complex solution and those who try to solve complex problems with elegant solutions. The first group transfers all the complexity directly to the solution, the latter tries to eradicate complexity by dumbing down the problem first. I found that engineers tend to be in the first group. Designers (especially UX's) tend to form the second group. The fact that there is a "Complexity Reduction"[0] trend in UX may be both a cause or an effect of this (I'm not really sure). Another UI example. This is a popular software made by the first group: https://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/assets/img-bru/mainscr.png https://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/assets/img-bru/mainscr.p... This is the same problem solved by the second group: https://cdn.osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/choose-batch-rename-files-specifics-new-names-mac.jpg https://cdn.osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/choose-b... This may be also explicative: https://xkcd.com/538/ https://xkcd.com/538/ [0]: https://medium.com/slate-teams/complexion-reduction-a-new-trend-in-mobile-design-cef033a0b978#.swq6vxlp0 https://medium.com/slate-teams/complexion-reduction-a-new-tr...