[yetanother12345]

> " ... is bringing to the table is the idea ..."

Wikipedia states that

    "Keep it simple, stupid!", is a design principle first noted by the U.S. Navy in 1960 [0]

... but some coders, including yours truly, has been brought up with that principle as a keystone of programming from day one (which was decades ago). It is related to the more modern DRY principle.

If this is brought to the table now it is only seemingly so, caused by the fact that those at the table must have forgot it, or never learned it. Of course, there are also commercial interests in keeping things as complicated as possible - it could just be that these have had too much influence for too long.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle