Complexity may be your enemy, but you should respect your enemy, or it will defeat you. Disrespecting complexity usually goes "that complex thing is a mess, le

Complexity may be your enemy, but you should respect your enemy, or it will defeat you. Disrespecting complexity usually goes "that complex thing is a mess, let's make something simple instead", which usually results in the "simple" thing being useless, and often not that simple. Respect complexity, especially if your goal is to remove it.