[hielis]

I guess one could say that actually complicated code makes up for less than 5-10% of any non trivial project. Beyond that I agree with the underlying point, getting stakeholders to clearly state their needs in a way that’s actionable is the hardest part.

[selfhoster11]

Yup. And beyond that, once you get your stakeholders to express their needs clearly enough to cover all corner cases, what you basically have done is programming. Except the source code is in English than in C or Java or what have you, but it's just as complex to understand.