Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better.
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD896.html
Sometimes we discover unpleasant truths. Whenever we do so, we are in difficulties: suppressing them is scientifically dishonest, so we must tell them, but telling them, however, will fire back on us.
https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/ewd498.html