[ItsMonkk]

I see tech debt and simplicity as a mixture between 'tyranny of small decisions' and each individual coders 'cleanliness' level.

Each individual coder has a code cleanliness level, similar to how every friend's Mom growing up would always remark "Sorry the house is a mess", when it was spotless. If your used to 9/10 and it's a 7, that looks like a wreck. If you are used to 5 and it's a 7, that looks great. I urge other coders to increase their cleanliness level, and to look for others with high cleanliness for guidance. If you are coding next to people that 5 looks good to them, no matter how much they try to pay down technical debt, they never will.

I think tyranny is ultimately showing us that the tooling that we currently have is making is much trickier than should be to evolve those abstractions. Partially this is because of bad abstractions that caused bad tooling and bad tooling that caused bad abstractions. Because it's so difficult, we don't do it. We take the small decision and work slightly harder in a slightly buggier environment to get the new thing done. But of course now the problem is bigger which means its even less likely for us to ever actually pay down that debt.

> “I’m sorry I wrote you such a long letter. I didn’t have time to write you a short one.” – Blaise Pascal