[vezzy-fnord]

It's one thing to recognize simplicity versus ease of use, it's a wholly different thing to apply it. Ease of use is what is most trivially observable by an end user. Actually understanding the nature of the problem domain and properly evaluating architectures beyond making sweeping inferences from what the interface looks like, that is significantly more difficult. Despite all the lip service that gets payed towards simplicity, most people do not want it and it will be met by derision and scorn if the simple solution imposes a higher learning curve or does not make policy and integration decisions for the user. Especially considering the culture of coding bootcamps, DevOps, "get shit done" and "move fast and break things" by and large promotes an anti-intellectualism that is in stark opposition to deeply evaluating problem domains so you can come up with simple solutions.

[serve_yay]

Right, and so what you get is people saying something is "simple" when what they really mean is that they like it. Which is of course not Hickey's fault, it just irks me for some reason.