xkcd this morning has illustrated a concept i find myself in from time to time - "perhaps i made it a bit more complicated than it needed to be"
when i was taking a guitar building course, i'd frequently pick something really beyond my abilities or more elaborate than really needed.
my instructor kept saying "ambition is a grevious fault" when i did this.
took most of the 7 weeks for me to realize what he was really saying to me. :)
sometimes, simplicity is the better choice.