[hiAndrewQuinn]

I maintain that the only way to truly fight cognitive load is to outsource more of your design to long-term memory. That is as close to a silver bullet as you will ever get, and it explains way more of the tech landscape than you want to admit.

In the ideal case, there exists a literal piece of mathematics you translate into code and work with from there. The upfront cost is extreme - but, once the math is internalized, the resulting product is sleek and elegant and can be understood rapidly at a bird's eye view by other people who also understand the underlying mathematics.

Weaken this ideal case however appropriate to your business case, but no more than you have to!