That's an elegant way to articulate a criticism I've had of many technologies that I have been unable to state so clearly. All those file formats, for example, that seek to replace XML. Think of JSON, YAML, and TOML. They all claim to be simple, but end up too simple in practice and cause just as many issues as they solve. Comments, schemas, and namespaces were there for a reason, they weren't just a "messy design" awaiting a visionary to clean up...
> 6. Use authoritarian power to impose that vision, by demolishing the old reality if necessary
Unfortunately, in the cloud era, we're all faced with trillion dollar behemoth organisations that wield absolute power over their dominions. Us peasants have no hope of changing the vision they choose to impose. Suddenly, the well-established and well-known stable world has become "legacy".