Comment by hinkley

Once you pick an “As simple as possible, but no simpler” solution, it triggers Dunning Kruger in a lot of people who think they can one up you.

There was a time in my early to mid career when I had to defend my designs a lot because people thought my solutions were shallower than they were and didn’t understand that the “quirks” were covering unhappy paths. They were often load bearing, 80/20 artifacts.