It goes both ways. I certainly hate un-needed complexity but somethings are just complex. Good examples are font rendering
https://gankra.github.io/blah/text-hates-you/ and text input
https://lord.io/text-editing-hates-you-too/ You think it's going to be easy. It's not. It just isn't.
Often software is too simple. I just recently got my first "Smart Lights" (my mistake). I'm using Apple Home to control them. I put 3 bulbs in a 3 bulb standing lamp. Home has no way to for me to designate those as a single lamp. To Home they are 3 lamps. The solution is supposed to be use normal bulbs and a smart switch. But that precludes being able to set the colors of the bulbs. In other words, they thought it was simple but it's not.
It gets worse. At first I thought this would be cool, but now I realize if I have a house guest, they won't be able to turn on the lights if I left them off. Arguably, if the power is cut and comes back on, maybe the lights should default to full white? At least then, in an emergency they just work. But again, designing lights that do that would be more complexity, not less.
I can even add another wrinkle. My Siri is set to Japanese. So, my English speaking house guests will not be able to ask for the lights to be turned on if I had a HomePod, which I don't. More complexity because the world is complex
Often software is too simple. I just recently got my first "Smart Lights" (my mistake). I'm using Apple Home to control them. I put 3 bulbs in a 3 bulb standing lamp. Home has no way to for me to designate those as a single lamp. To Home they are 3 lamps. The solution is supposed to be use normal bulbs and a smart switch. But that precludes being able to set the colors of the bulbs. In other words, they thought it was simple but it's not.
It gets worse. At first I thought this would be cool, but now I realize if I have a house guest, they won't be able to turn on the lights if I left them off. Arguably, if the power is cut and comes back on, maybe the lights should default to full white? At least then, in an emergency they just work. But again, designing lights that do that would be more complexity, not less.
I can even add another wrinkle. My Siri is set to Japanese. So, my English speaking house guests will not be able to ask for the lights to be turned on if I had a HomePod, which I don't. More complexity because the world is complex