Agreed. “Do the simplest thing that could possibly work” has sometimes been good advice for me, even if that simple thing is unsuitable at scale, not production

Agreed. “Do the simplest thing that could possibly work” has sometimes been good advice for me, even if that simple thing is unsuitable at scale, not production-ready, etc. There are problems for which that solution is a stone’s throw from an optimal one. And if not, seeing the downsides of that naive solution can still point the way to what needs to be done in the ‘real’ solution.