For some related ideas:

  - Bike-shedding [0]
  - the Law of Triviality [1]
  - "Hammock-Driven Design" - a 2010 talk by Rich Hickey [2]

[0] https://thedecisionlab.com/biases/bikeshedding

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc