[BigJono]

That's a symptom of people not understanding the concept of complexity and falling victim to the law of leaky abstractions.

People don't work towards reducing complexity in large applications (which involves trimming dependencies, removing api surface area and minimizing interactions between different people's code, which is all hard), they work towards reducing complexity in simple toy applications (which is about cramming as many tools in until you can do exactly one specific thing in one short line and it looks nice).

That has the effect of reducing complexity at first glance, but increasing it in real world applications.

[taeric]

I was playing with that thought in my head. Would be neat to highlight some examples of good simplifications.

Databases come to mind. Collections libraries do not. :(