Most software problems don’t need another abstraction.
They need fewer moving parts.
I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve seen a simple problem become harder because the solution was designed for three future requirements that never arrived.
The tricky part is that complexity often feels like progress. More layers, more abstractions, more flexibility. Everything looks cleaner until somebody has to debug it six months later.
That’s not an argument against design.
It’s an argument for letting abstractions earn their place.
The best code I’ve worked with wasn’t simple because it lacked sophistication. It was simple because somebody had the discipline to solve the problem they had instead of the one they imagined might exist someday.
Simple code doesn’t always win.
It just wins far more often than people expect.