[s-shellfish]

It's basically boiling down all software and computer science to 'simple' versus 'complicated' but the problem is, what's simple and what's complicated is always relative to your frame of reference.

If you are used to thinking in one paradigm in a very rigid way, of course the other is going to be hard to comprehend, hard to use, challenging to implement, and difficult to maintain. That doesn't make one solution objectively better or worse. Pick the right tool for the job. Sometimes the right tool starts with the way the mind is thinking about the problem.

All of this can drive you insane to get 'perfect' especially when technology moves fast, and the world changes. So at the end of the day, 'good enough' is usually 'good enough'.

I feel like a lot of the advice out there about software and software philosophy are just venting steam sometimes, because, people who work with software and hardware often have to not only deal with a machine telling them the way they do things are wrong (like an error message, or just trying to figure out how to make the thing do what it's supposed to do) but also plenty of people around them, saying "this is the right way to do things". Yes, it is the right way to do things, sometimes.