Complexity worship

Unfortunately, most people seems to be pre-programmed to think that complex solutions are automatically better, which leads to complexity worship. It's a an extremely common phenomenon, especially in combination with Cargo cult programming.

See also:

• Simple vs easy
• Cargo cult programming

More reading:

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18230827
• https://www.reforge.com/brief/why-software-developers-unconsciously-worship-complexity