I worked at a certain FAANG company at a time where the promo process rewarded "solving complex problems". The more complex of a problem you could solve the higher your level (and your pay, your status, etc).
Naturally, people were incentivized to find complex problems so they could solve them. Not only that, I think a lot of tech stacks at other companies evolved by copying this company's ideas, so even smaller companies with even less need for complex solutions ended up having them as well.
Naturally, people were incentivized to find complex problems so they could solve them. Not only that, I think a lot of tech stacks at other companies evolved by copying this company's ideas, so even smaller companies with even less need for complex solutions ended up having them as well.