"Make things that are easier to reason with. Code that is easy to reason with and replace is the code that will run for decades." I agree 100%, and, apparently

"Make things that are easier to reason with. Code that is easy to reason with and replace is the code that will run for decades." I agree 100%, and, apparently many others did : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle When I started out programming in the 90s the KISS principle was mentioned, but I don't hear it so much these days. Maybe we all ought to start talking about it more. Having been a developer for ages, ridiculous over-complexity of software has always been a problem. It comes and goes I think.