[fcarraldo]

I don’t agree with the phrasing, but there is certainly a ton of complexity introduced because of engineers who are trying to be promoted or otherwise maintain their image of being capable of solving complex problems (through complex solutions).

It’s not the same as introducing complexity to keep yourself employed, but the result is the same and so is the cause - incentive structures aren’t aligned at most companies to solve problems simply and move on.

[mdaniel]

I realized that I should have asked for an example of "too complex" because I may not be following the arguments because my definition of a thing that is "too complex" almost certainly doesn't align with someone else's. In fact, I'd bet that if you rounded up 10 users from this site and polled them for something they thought was "too complex" the intersection would be a very, very small set of things