Complicated laws should correspond to the complexity of the situation that society wants to regulate. Presumably, only those in society that engage in that area will be effected and know what the law means. Otherwise, you have a bureaucratic system which chokes its own people and it’s own growth.

No, law as ‘CODE’ is too monolithic. Citizens cannot face prison because actual life in society may or may run afoul of the law given its vague, ambiguous, or even self defeating language