100% with the author here: the number of times I've worked with clever, talented people who make things as complicated as possible is too damn high. The usual r

100% with the author here: the number of times I've worked with clever, talented people who make things as complicated as possible is too damn high. The usual result is that they leave, somebody thinks "jesus I don't want to maintain this" and their code is either ignored forever or rewritten with the complexity removed. Maybe this is done in a more verbose or ugly way, but it is also more approachable. As a profession, we really don't give one another enough help. Coding is not about reaching some platonic form of terse expressiveness, it is a social activity, and the sooner this is commonly understood, the better.