[8chanAnon]

>If you don't spend enough time on design, it's easy to wind up with an overcomplicated API that lacks documentation.

That sounds about right. Creeping featurism gets ahead of the team's ability to document it all before the product has to be delivered. Hence the need to take some time off and write a book about it. It's not necessarily an evil plan but just the way it works sometimes. Writing documentation is hard. Delivering the documentation on time is even harder.