Comment by fouric

This quote does not scale. Software contains essential complexity because it was built to fulfill a need. You can make all of the beautiful, feature-impoverished designs you want - they won't make it to production, and I won't use them, because they don't do the thing.

If your software does not do the thing, then it's not useful, it's a piece of art - not an artifact of software engineering that is meant to fulfill a purpose.