> Easy to favor simplicity when the basics in your field hasn't been fully mapped out yet. Partly this, and partly because average college professors are being

> Easy to favor simplicity when the basics in your field hasn't been fully mapped out yet. Partly this, and partly because average college professors are being compared to some of the greatest scholars of all time. Figures like Einstein or Feynman were able to simply inherently difficult/complex problems well into the 20th century, and similar people are surely doing the same today. But often a difficult problem needs to be understood the hard way before it can be simplified down to something that is easier to communicate.