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Some problems are just hard and complicated. You can try to make code that dissects it into lots of simpler pieces, but then they have to be put together in a complicated way. Someplace in the code there will be some point of irreducible complexity. In my experience.

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In my experience you need a paradigm shift then. If your earth centric approach is creating a need for epicycles of complex code, then you need to paradigm shift to heliocentric which eliminates the epicycles and replaces them with a simple elliptical model.

I'm willing to believe that there are sometimes problems that are inherently complex, but I find that much of the time the problem is complex only because you've insisted it be complex. If you take a step back and re-examine the problem you often see that redefining the problem makes everything much more simple.

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