[zippergz]

My experience is that programmers I've worked with who strongly identified as being interested in ML tended to be prone to wanting to build very complex ML-based systems when much simpler (albeit less sexy) solutions would suffice. Certainly this is a generalization, but I've seen it enough times to be wary.

[matwood]

I don't identify as an ML person and fight this type of complexity all the time. Start simple and then move complex. Starting complex is simply overkill for so many problems.