I feel like complexity has been weaponized by whole industries, by companies and by professionals. It doesn't require a conspiracy: it's easier to let complexit

I feel like complexity has been weaponized by whole industries, by companies and by professionals. It doesn't require a conspiracy: it's easier to let complexity creep in, it makes people feel smart and makes clients captive to tools they don't understand well enough to replace and ecosystems that preclude migrating away from. The rationale I keep hearing is always: "I just wanna solve the immediate problem and move on", and the complaints are also very consistent: "Systems are hard to understand, to reason about and to change". Yet no-one seems to acknowledge the cause-effect relationship and just pretend like all of this is inevitable.