Complexity kills.
… the startups we audited that are now doing the best usually had an almost brazenly ‘Keep It Simple’ approach to engineering. Cleverness for cleverness sake was abhorred. On the flip side, the companies where we were like ”woah, these folks are smart as hell” for the most part kind of faded.
https://renegadeotter.com/2023/09/10/death-by-a-thousand-microservices.html*