Comment by rc_hackernews

This was exactly me and few months ago and is also how I burned out at my last job. You can add all the front-end stuff to that list too.

I think it’s easy to say we as engineers should make things simpler. I have no idea how to do that in practice on a team though.

Once the complexity started to creep in, seems like a wave just kept sweeping everyone towards more and more complexity.