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There's nothing wrong with "accidentally-overengineering" in the sense of having off-the-shelf options that are actually nice.

There is something wrong with adding a "fancy" feature to an off-the-shelf option, if said "fancy" feature is realistically "a complicated engineering question, for which we can offer a leaky abstraction that will ultimately trip up anybody who doesn't have the actual mechanics in mind when using it".

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> There's nothing wrong with "accidentally-overengineering" in the sense of having off-the-shelf options that are actually nice.

Your comment focuses on desired outcomes (i.e., "nice" things), but fails to acknowledge the reality of tradeoffs. Over engineering a solution always creates problems. Systems become harder to reason with, harder to maintain, harder to troubleshoot. For example, in JSON arrays are ordered lists. If you onboard an overengineered tool that arbitrarily reorders elements in a JSON array, things can break in non-trivial ways. And they often do.

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