The problem is not that the tools exist, or that complexity exists. The problem is that the community view, enforced by various incentives and supported by the

The problem is not that the tools exist, or that complexity exists. The problem is that the community view, enforced by various incentives and supported by the creators of these tools, creates a situation where technology choices are driven by what sounds good or is trendy rather than solving the problem at hand in the most effective way. Technology choices are institutional decisions. They are reached largely via defensibility to non-technologists, to whom (and indeed to most technologists) boils down to appeals to authority rather than to reason. Nobody is trying to stop this, and indeed many are trying to increase it so they can sell products with more features that virtually none of their customers need. Blogs, influencers and educational platforms push what is new so that they have more content. All of this is self reinforcing and we suffer because of it.