Dan Luu on Nostr: The kind of reasoning used above would get you laughed out of the room in the trades ...

The kind of reasoning used above would get you laughed out of the room in the trades but, in software, it's quite common to have some notion of complexity explicitly encoded in promo criteria.

And, unofficially, people are often impressed when someone builds some super complex thing you'd have to be very smart to pull off, even if that thing is worthless or negative value where, as in the trades, if you do that once or twice, you'll get a bad reputation that will follow you around for life.