Clarity is seniority. Cleverness is overhead. - On a consulting project where the client was building a 5000 user plus application. They had an amazing architect, know all the best frameworks and had implemented that on the project. Issue is, only he understood the framework (even though it's documented on github) and it costed the developers more time to understand the framework than if the code was a little "dumber". Then he left for a better role for his career as he should. Because of that, the devs and new architects abandoned the framework and built new things around it and now the old framework is "tech debt".