It's performance rating season again!
IME many IC dev career paths emphasize "technical mastery over a complex or complicated domain." Evidence of technical mastery biases towards an individual's digital artifacts rather than their discretion or restraint. This creates conditions where promo projects, premature internal complexity, and NIH syndrome flourish. Digital artifacts & activity metrics easily satisfy the Availability Heuristic.
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_The Complexity Came from Inside the House_ is a reasonable outcome given these conditions. Acknowledging the Availability Heuristic and/or looking for ways to exploit it (https://github.com/adr ?) may help nudge things to a Less is More footing without impacting IC career growth.