I think the parent wanted to say that their problems are rather tedious than hard.

I'm currently in a very similar situation - a project in which we have a table of records, two of which are special in a certain, business-related way, but need to be presented along with the others, so to get around this we place "ifs" here and there - a lot of them.

It's a generally simple project that has been turned into something overly complicated because somebody lacked the foresight to design the architecture better.