[hinkley]

Complexity is combinatorial. If you compose your code of overly complex components the end result will have much more emergent behavior.

If everything at the bottom is straightforward, then people will spot more overarching concerns, instead of bogging down in minor details.

I’d really love to see some cognitive science applied directly to UX and code quality concepts. Surely some of the things we espouse but don’t enforce are spot on, and others are cargo culting. Refining that list might make it harder to ignore.