[RangerScience]

Yup yup! It's like Asimov's Three Laws; you want to end up with a balance between the principles, and the "more important" ones just get higher weighting. It's totally possible (and common, I'd say) for the "weight" of the third one (complexity of the things) to reach the point where it's better to shift the complexity onto the "number of things".

(actually, on that note, a piece of my life philosophy is to have "opposing principles", since it's only through forces in opposition that balance is possible).