Thing is, I've had non-Seniors-Developers asking for more complex stuff as often as I had seniors doing it. It's cultural. Complexity is often part of develope

Thing is, I've had non-Seniors-Developers asking for more complex stuff as often as I had seniors doing it. It's cultural. Complexity is often part of developer culture, period. I've even had a non-technical CEO asking to use Angular around 2013-2014. Developer culture is leaking. Also a lot of accidental complexity comes from the business/staffing side. So, you need to have 200 developers because some high-up said so? Better jump on that Kubernetes and Microservices train. Are the business processes more complex than they have to be because of inertia and disorganization? Let's spend a million bucks customizing that off-the-shelf ERP system.