[m12k]

From a UI/usability perspective, one of the dangers with overengineering is the "wall of options" issue, where all users - even the majority of them that just need something simple - still need to read and understand all these advanced options. As a product manager and UI designer you have a couple ways to deal with this. You can choose an opinionated subset of features that make sense for a given niche and target only that demographic. You can go the corporate way, keep the wall of options and just require training for users. Or you can try the balancing act - choose a sane subset of features as the default, and hide the more advanced options, so they don't bother normal users, but still have them as possible options. There are many important choices regarding how much to hide, and where, and how to make it discoverable, and how to make it possible to gradually dig deeper, and for users to self-identify as someone that needs to dig deeper - and those details are often as much art as science. But get it right, and you've got one of those rare killer apps that both newbies and experienced users enjoy.

[kwertyoowiyop]

And if you get it right, people just say “That software is so simple, I could have written it in a weekend!” :-)

[diordiderot]

I feel like figma does the balancing act well

[satyrnein]

I must not be the target user. I don't want to tinker with gradients, I just want a button with some text in it. Yet, I see options for the former, but I had to carefully align two different elements for the latter.

I'm sure this can all be solved with modeling out your design system or whatever, but as a product manager who needed to make a quick mockup, I found it a little overwhelming.