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(I'm not responding directly to parent post, more adding my two cents in agreement)

'Necessary complexity' needs to live somewhere. There is often a core of complexity that is intrinsic to the problem being solved. This cannot be removed, only moved/converted/etc..

That doesn't mean everything needs to be complex, and that you need to 'collect' it somewhere. There is such a thing as unnecessary complexity, and code that has a lot of it is 'bad code'. Don't fall for the trap of thinking that you can't improve code by identifying and eliminating unnecessary complexity.