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I think that is an orthogonal issue.

That is more or less about virtue signalling that you are a "team player" that helps your boss advance his career rather than doing what nominally is your job. Think teenage clothing fashion. You need to show you are in.

Pretending that complex and risky solutions are needed is a key property of this. The boss need headcounts for the complex fancy project.

And so on, with different companies being in different circles of hell on the matter.

Good solutions usually look simple and easy in my experience. Downplaying the skill in doing them.

The author however seems to write about machine learning, which honestly is a really fast moving field right now. Sometimes things just move fast?