>Software engineering has got - in my opinion, often needlessly - complicated, with people rushing to very labour intensive patterns such as TDD, microservices,

>Software engineering has got - in my opinion, often needlessly - complicated, with people rushing to very labour intensive patterns such as TDD, microservices, super complex React frontends and Kubernetes. Let's say it is complicated. But what is the better alternative when dealing with large software? To what point we can simplify it and not lose anything important?