For me "realize that you don't need the feature" is strong and also hits home. I sometimes prototype in C because it makes me think really hard about "what does

For me "realize that you don't need the feature" is strong and also hits home. I sometimes prototype in C because it makes me think really hard about "what does this thing really have to do? What can I omit for now?" While in for instance C# I tend to think "this would be simple to implement with whatever-fancy-thing-is-just-a-package-away". Neither way is impossible to judge as good or bad on its own. A real world system is almost always part of a larger system or system of systems. Making one thing simple can make another complex. The world is messy.