This is a short-sighted view in my opinion. Similar views often lead to reimplementing old bugs, rediscovering hidden requirements, and ultimately re-implementi

This is a short-sighted view in my opinion. Similar views often lead to reimplementing old bugs, rediscovering hidden requirements, and ultimately re-implementing most of the things that made the old system complicated. We've seen this in npm. Npm was supposed to be simpler than maven - then it slowly rediscovered the reasons we need package signing, support for circular dependencies, and all the other messy things that go into package management. While I don't have numbers, it seems like a huge percentage of the "this problem should be simple, let's build a new app" projects either fail or recreate the same gnarly problems that led the existing projects to be complicated.