Completely agree, except that simplicity is kind of redundant. If the code is correct and readable, I don't see why I need to simplify it any further, to me it

Completely agree, except that simplicity is kind of redundant. If the code is correct and readable, I don't see why I need to simplify it any further, to me it's probably simple enough if the complexity isn't causing problems. It seems like engineers, and humans in general, really love simplicity for its own sake, in some deep way I that makes me wonder if I'm secretly a bad person, since it seems to so often be praised as connected to so many other virtues and most every philosopher ever seems to love it. I'd much rather have DRY than simplicity, because repetition creates the possibility for later divergence and incompatibility and stuff left behind. What if there's a bug in the thing you repeated and only 9 out of 10 get fixed because of an oversight?