Comment by andix

One of the best examples of this complexity inflation problem I always see is the Redux pattern in frontends. This pattern comes with a lot of overhead, a lot of things that need to line up (Actions, Reducers, Actioncreators, Selectors, ...). And most of the time the applications that use it are completely trivial. If you remove Redux, half of the code is gone, it's faster and easier to understand and extend.