It's just a misfire on foresight. People writing code try to make the computer do most of the work. When they miscalculate the axes along which the machine must evolve it looks like unnecessary complexity. The structure of human interaction dictates the rest: no engineer fitting a piece into a port built for it in software thinks the designer of the software a genius - he thinks himself the genius for having fit it to the port; but every engineer who doesn't find the port thinks the designer an imbecile.