This is because simplicity in a complex system allows easy problem solving and tooling built around it. Knowledge silos and haunted forests are much easier to a

This is because simplicity in a complex system allows easy problem solving and tooling built around it. Knowledge silos and haunted forests are much easier to avoid this way. Any complex distributed system to be comprehensible to a team let alone a single person has to have individually simple components with obvious design. There’s way too many rube goldberg machines out there.