I wish we lived in a world where quotes could be that powerful. But I'm afraid in reality this quote, like any other, is just used as a justification after the fact.

Actually, I do not believe devs are to blame, or that CS education is to blame; I believe that's an unfortunate law of society that complexity piles up faster than we can manage it. Of course the economic system rewards shiping today at the expense of tomorrow's maintenance, and also rewards splitting systems in seemingly independent subsystems that are simpler in isolation but results in a more complex machinery (cloud, microservices...)

I'm even wondering if it's not a more fundamental law than that, because adding complexity is always simpler than removing it, right? Kind of a second law of termodynamic for code.