Somewhat. Before I venture off on a tangent I just want to be clear that communicating architecture is a different goal than simplifying architecture.
Simple is not easy. In the context of logic simple just means fewer, or numerically less than something else. Please see this most excellent video by Rich Hickey, the creator of Clojure language: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxdOUGdseq4
The primary problem with simplifying architecture is that simplification segregates a population. For people who are capable of understanding and communicating concepts of architecture simplification dramatically increases expressiveness and reduces labor. For people who have not earned comfort with architecture simplification imposes barriers to understanding. It's the difference between adapting an abstract subject into an essay versus needing to be told what the research material is as well as what words and thoughts are appropriate.
Consider subjects like lexical scope, functions as first class citizens, definitions via interfaces, tree models and taxonomies, and so forth. None of those subjects on their own are challenging, at least for most of us. Most people use these concepts outside of programming everyday without really thinking about it. The challenge then is to get people to think about these concepts intentionally. In most cases people not already comfortable expressing logic in these concepts will only do so if alternatives are removed. This is more challenging than it sounds because it requires separating people from competing institutions they are reliant upon.
In my case, just putting my own bias out there, I am self taught. I learned to program while traveling across Afghanistan, though I had already taught myself XML Schema the year prior. There were many times I did not have internet access so I could not simply access unlimited references or rely upon unlimited dependencies. I just had to figure it out logically and through trial and error. I also did not have prior teaching in the subject so I was a clean slate. The result was to do that which required less memorization and less formal education instead favoring that which was more visual and immediately expressive. Perhaps this is why I find DOM traversal amazing while most people are absolutely horrified by it.
Simple is not easy. In the context of logic simple just means fewer, or numerically less than something else. Please see this most excellent video by Rich Hickey, the creator of Clojure language: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxdOUGdseq4
The primary problem with simplifying architecture is that simplification segregates a population. For people who are capable of understanding and communicating concepts of architecture simplification dramatically increases expressiveness and reduces labor. For people who have not earned comfort with architecture simplification imposes barriers to understanding. It's the difference between adapting an abstract subject into an essay versus needing to be told what the research material is as well as what words and thoughts are appropriate.
Consider subjects like lexical scope, functions as first class citizens, definitions via interfaces, tree models and taxonomies, and so forth. None of those subjects on their own are challenging, at least for most of us. Most people use these concepts outside of programming everyday without really thinking about it. The challenge then is to get people to think about these concepts intentionally. In most cases people not already comfortable expressing logic in these concepts will only do so if alternatives are removed. This is more challenging than it sounds because it requires separating people from competing institutions they are reliant upon.
In my case, just putting my own bias out there, I am self taught. I learned to program while traveling across Afghanistan, though I had already taught myself XML Schema the year prior. There were many times I did not have internet access so I could not simply access unlimited references or rely upon unlimited dependencies. I just had to figure it out logically and through trial and error. I also did not have prior teaching in the subject so I was a clean slate. The result was to do that which required less memorization and less formal education instead favoring that which was more visual and immediately expressive. Perhaps this is why I find DOM traversal amazing while most people are absolutely horrified by it.