I'm guessing that the reason that you've been downvoted is because sometimes the simpler program isn't "right-engineered". I was working on a project where it

I'm guessing that the reason that you've been downvoted is because sometimes the simpler program isn't "right-engineered". I was working on a project where it was pointed out that our code could be written in a simpler way. It would take up less CPU cycles and, more importantly, use half as much storage. The optimization proposed: stop the background script that makes backups of the data. It's absolutely true that not having that script running in the background would use less computing resources and lead to a simpler program, as well as saving nearly a terabyte of disc space. However, I don't suspect that you would ever recommend performing that simplification.