I 100% agree. I feel a huge part of my responsibility as a software "engineer" is to manage complexity. But i feel i'm fighting a losing battle, most everyone seems to pull in the opposite direction.

Complexity increases your surface area for bugs to hide in.

I've come to the conclusion it's tragedy-of-the-commons incentives: People get promotions for complex and clever work, so they do it, at the cost of a more-complex-thus-buggy solution.

And yes, it's not just software, it's everywhere. My modern BMW fell apart, in many many ways, at the 7 year mark, for one data point.