Is there a word for the right amount of engineering? Kind of a negative concept of not engaging in performative conceptualization. Just doing it in a way that the implementation was natural and not worth writing home about.

Yeah. It's "engineering".

Wikipedia's introductory paragraph to the subject includes the following sentence:

> Engineering involves balancing competing demands such as safety, performance, aesthetics, cost, laws and regulations, and time, while operating within fundamental limits such as the laws of physics.

(from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineering)

I realize the word is overloaded now and that people are confusing writing programs and other cerebral pursuits with engineering, but that doesn't change its original definition.

Good question, sometimes engineering that leads to a creation which is “purpose built”.

This is arguably what MVP is supposedly to mean

Even-engineering?