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Any food beyond soylent is just unnecessary complexity. Any books beyond reference manuals are just unnecessary complexity. Any interior colors on your walls other than white is just unnecessary complexity. Any music beyond Bach is just unnecessary complexity...

Maybe people enjoy aesthetics other than minimalist? Maybe some people enjoy complex things?

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Bach is, quite literally, famous for being baroque, not minimalist.

Soylent is way more complicated than potatoes.

Poor overly generalized statement there. Point being importance of identifying and addressing complexity as a 'I want'... not a 'I need'. Accept it or abhorr it, first recognize it as a complexity.

Both the parent and gp mentioned graphic design. I think you can make the case for designing something simply, over and above aesthetics.

I hope we can agree that adding unnecessary complexity to software is bad, and that simplicity should be something to strive for.

Am not saying graphic design is nearly as (inherently) complex as computer engineering, but neither benefits from complicating things that don't need to be complicated.

You provide a good example with your reference manual. The diagrams will be clear, the fonts readable, they wont have jazzy designs etc etc etc.

You must mean someone not JS. Minimalism in music is a 20th century phenomenon.

The thread is about a solar powered site and energy use.

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