When people, particularly designers, say something is "too intricate" or whatever, it's usually just a signal they wouldn't have the skills to make something like it.
Late 2000's/ early 2010's there was a rush of college students wanting to pursue app/ web design. Colleges had no faculty to fill that, so they just took print design professors and they shoehorned print philosophy into interaction design and we ended up with a generation of designers who don't have the first idea about depth hierarchy, affordance, etc and everything looks like a scrollable poster now.
Late 2000's/ early 2010's there was a rush of college students wanting to pursue app/ web design. Colleges had no faculty to fill that, so they just took print design professors and they shoehorned print philosophy into interaction design and we ended up with a generation of designers who don't have the first idea about depth hierarchy, affordance, etc and everything looks like a scrollable poster now.