> blame the engineers for the complexity

I was going to add that the engineers themselves do (or should, in a healthy organisation) have the mandate to knowingly choose not to bring in artifical complexity where it's not useful or required.

But then I thought that in a lot of situtations perhaps the engineers aren't really 'Knowingly choosing not to' but 'Unknowingly choosing to' bring in that complexity, because the volume of content and mindshare that goes into proposing new and alternate ways of working and tools that aren't actually different seems to dwarf the amount of information around fundamentals and things that don't change as often.

So perhaps any accountability really should go as much to CTOs, open source developers trying to make their mark, influencers.