@nixCraft I've spoken a few times on "simple" versus "clever" and it boils down to making an "elegant" design. The first one in your quote is a great example where trying for a "simple" is actually going to make things more complex because of the difficulty in achieving it. And you also don't want a rube goldeberg machine at the other end of the scale. You want elegance: "gracefully concise and simple; admirably succinct.”