[wellpast]

>> If something really is unnecessarily complex, better alternatives are likely to arise, perhaps suddenly.

I suspect that a good majority of corporate code assets trend toward becoming unnecessarily complex. After a certain level of complexity is reached, a company will often look for that better alternative and decide to rewrite from scratch. But in many/most cases of this that I know of, this attempt to recreate/rebuild is found to be intractable.

What seems to happen is that more and more developers are hired to maintain the complexity and I wonder if that's what most developers out there are doing, maintaining complexity, which always makes me think the same thing:

>> That sounds like an unpleasant way to earn a living.

[wdmeldon]

>> I wonder if that's what most developers out there are doing, maintaining complexity

Oh they are. No need to wonder.