It's amazing how you can tell so much about a person just by reading one short article. To me, your advice comes across as condescending. Maybe you need to work on your communication skills too?

Regardless, what's the practical solution to managing complexity in a team "that's not ready"? At some point, most projects get complex enough that you're going to have to do _something_ that someone is going to find confusing. It could be functional, OO, whatever.

If you've got complexity to manage and can't use reasonable tools to manage it, you may have bigger problems. Pandering to the hypothetical lowest common denominator developer isn't going to help much, because they're probably not going to "get it" anyway and will likely make a mess in any case.