[nadam]

I think it is important to discuss the notion of accidental complexity and essential complexity here. If your organization's strength is that you have world class engineering essential complexity is your friend: a problem domain with big essential complexity is really a moat: it keeps the barrier to entry into the market high. If there were less essential complexity in the world there would be much less money in software engineering and much less software engineer jobs would exist. Case in point: markets where barrier to entry regarding technical complexity become too low degrade into a race for the bottom. (like the flood of indie games that do not make money.) On the other hand accidental complexity is not our friend: if you maintain a system with too much accidental complexity there is a great risk that a smarter competitor could create something at least as good with less resources.