[ratww]

Nah, that’s a cop out. There’s nothing enlightening about shrugging off complexity.

If a system is hard to interface with, the complexity is still accidental, it is just outside your own system and maybe out of your control.

Even if you’re a “middleware” company that connects multiple shitty systems together, you’re still adding zero value to anything but your own pocket. The complexity is still there.

We still have the right to call a spade a spade. In the past I had to say “no” to managers about interfacing with shitty systems. Sometimes you CAN make a difference.

[titzer]

Aren't we kind of agreeing, given your last two sentences?