Completely tangential here, but there's an important exception to the Keep-it-simple-stupid rule. It's Admiral Rickover's nuclear reactors. He looked at all the

Completely tangential here, but there's an important exception to the Keep-it-simple-stupid rule. It's Admiral Rickover's nuclear reactors. He looked at all the options and decided that there's just no way to "keep it simple". He decided that his reactors will be what they'll need to be, and the operators will be extraordinarily well trained so that accidents don't happen. There's a well known Rickover diatribe [1] where he goes on a rant against know-it-alls who propose different designs that work only on paper. It gets posted on HN regularly, I won't quote it again. [1] https://whatisnuclear.com/rickover.html https://whatisnuclear.com/rickover.html