Simplicity is like performance or good design. It's valuable but it takes a disproportionate amount of effort. But it's worth it regardless if you want your pro

Simplicity is like performance or good design. It's valuable but it takes a disproportionate amount of effort. But it's worth it regardless if you want your product to become hugely successful because software popularity follows a power law curve. It can take 5x longer to make a product 20% simpler and 30% faster. But that might result in your product becoming 10x more popular. Power law dynamics are very counter-intuitive that way.