When I've taken this thought to its extreme, Chuck Moore's ideology around Forth makes total sense: If a problem is only going to be solved in a complex, Byzan

When I've taken this thought to its extreme, Chuck Moore's ideology around Forth makes total sense: If a problem is only going to be solved in a complex, Byzantine fashion, it's the wrong problem. Walk away from it. Solve a different one. Quit the job. Reconsider your lifestyle. And most people aren't going to be able to consider it seriously on that level. The monstrous systems are there because everyone involved has collectively agreed that whatever is justifying the problem is so important that it's OK to let the resulting system grow monster-sized and swallow everyone up. On that basis the only thing anyone can hope for is a painkiller to make the monster a little less soul-crushing.