Suckless has a beautiful coding philosophy and I wish all software was written with this in mind, but surely a window manager and X-menu aren't really the best

Suckless has a beautiful coding philosophy and I wish all software was written with this in mind, but surely a window manager and X-menu aren't really the best showcases? These aren't the types of programs where complexity is the biggest enemy. I'm not claiming I could write these tools as simple as these, but surely the importance of these paradigms arise when actual complicated software is needed?