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What was the point again?

Simple isn't Complex any more than Love is War or Dark is Light.

System-wide interactions between any kind of components is about as difficult as it gets.

Second that. This conclusion "Simplicity leads to complexity." is just too much of a shortcut of the author's own train of thought. As you said, this sentence should read "Interaction and coupling leads to complex emergent behavior". I feel this summarizes this article better.

There’s a Alan Kay talk[0] that might illuminate for you that leap of logic about simplicity.

[0] https://youtu.be/NdSD07U5uBs

The article explained what that meant about as clearly as can be. If a pinch of poetic licence troubles you, skip those parts.

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