[tyleo]

You may be surprised but I’ve seen a lot of teams that seem to bias towards building the more complex thing.

I think calculating this sort of tradeoff is part of the skillset engineers tend to lack.

[shimman]

Yes, why would teams want to build a complex thing where they can claim tribal knowledge while building up their fiefs? Truly there is no junk incentive here, people just WANT complexity. No ulterior motives to be found!