I dunno, whining about bloated specifications vs simple solutions seems pointless. In the real world, I hack on some internal "framework" which is based on the

I dunno, whining about bloated specifications vs simple solutions seems pointless. In the real world, I hack on some internal "framework" which is based on the same bloated specs but has no spec and pretends to be slim. I'd rather just use the spec and get the tooling support. Literally we have an internal ASP, internal Groovy, internal make, internal httpclient, etc. These things are all undocumented, bit-rotting over time, and essentially useless without intervention from some random team in slack which doesn't know how it works because of reorg n-1. So I just copy paste some template repo and hack on it until it works for my case. Complexity isn't some parasite that hucksters are selling. Everyone everywhere is piling complexity on. You only get to pick your poison. Software which solves real problems isn't simple. If your problem is solved by a unix tool, then it wasn't a hard problem.