[ashayh]

Complexity is also about empire building and job security.

If every dev took the path of least resistance, and did the easiest thing that did its task, we would lose 80% of all tech jobs. This would only funnel more money to billionaires and share holders instead of the employees. Why would we want that.

[kevmo314]

This is an underrated reason why startups can be successful. Many large and even mid-sized companies' employees are encumbered in complexity indirectly because they need to engineer something to justify their jobs. I think a lot of devops is basically this sort of persona because if devops really did their jobs correctly, we shouldn't see so many devops jobs.