[nurple]

IMO, the complexity is an important aspect of the Sisyphean drive that life seems to have to reverse the action we call the second law of thermodynamics. I highly recommend reading The Animate and the Inanimate[0] by William Sidis.

However, I do agree that there is a lot of unnecessary complexity in our tech stacks today; though I blame much of this on how young the concept of computing and information theory still is. We're still exploring, we're still building, and it's really exciting to me to have the opportunity to work in a space that is only in its infancy. There is so much room for almost anyone in the field to bring innovations and improvements, if only so many of us weren't slaves to grinding our bones, and finite time, to dust creating things of dubious moral value under an almost singular focus on monetary wealth and the threat of death and ostracism.

[0] https://www.sidis.net/animate.pdf