Unnecessary complexity -for your use case-. Not for the set of use cases it's trying to solve. It's hard to view complexity caused by stuff you don't care about as anything but unnecessary.

it may be. can't really tell until somebody maps it to a universe that (I think) I understand...

but I suspect this seeming to be a hype of sorts within certrain tech circles (with associated professional incentives etc) there aren't many around that would have both the in-depth knowledge and the desire to really de-obfuscate and break it down