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>This is an anti pattern that keeps happening over and over in our industry. It’s partly a result of the middlebrow meme— that mid developers love complexity— and partly something that is pushed because someone (consultants, cloud providers) are profiting.

Pretty un-fixable without better stewardship over the software industry. That won't come for decades, so you may as well join the dark side and make the money and practice the way you want with hobbies or start your own company to enforce it.

I guess the stewardship can happen on a team level, but someone who's being restrained can always go find another job where they'll build the complexity they desire that ultimately gets maintained by someone else.