People can argue about this all day, but one thing is always crystal clear.

Simplicity comes from practice writing and refactoring large code thousands of times. People with limited or shallow experience may think they are good at this but only when they isolate themselves to known patterns of comfort or some giant framework. There is a lot of insecurity there.

Super experienced people, that is people with lots of practice writing large original applications, don’t think like the pretenders. Simplicity is built in like muscle memory. They just solve fucking problem and go drink a beer. There is no memorized pattern nonsense.

The super experienced developers see the pretenders for what they are while the pretenders either can’t see the distinction or just feel hostility at the deviation far outside a memorized convention.