What people are complaining about when they voice these sorts of concerns goes back to the concept of essential vs accidental complexity proposed by Fred Brooks

What people are complaining about when they voice these sorts of concerns goes back to the concept of essential vs accidental complexity proposed by Fred Brooks. The issue is not that adding accidental, inessential complexity to software is somehow a sin. The problem is that someone will have to wrangle this extra complexity. Enterprises can just throw bodies at the problem, creating drudgery. The warning is against producing pointless, boring work.