The Complexity Fetish: Why Are We Overengineering the Simple?

I agree.

I won't say where, but I have been at a place where the architecture forced me to spend a week making a fairly simple app signup flow, the kind of thing that would've been a day or two at most if I'd been allowed MVC (and that's including all the tests and code review).

Worse, that was then immediately thrown away by another team who put multiple developers on their marginally different version for about a month.

The more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to gum up the pipes:

https://benwheatley.github.io/blog/2024/04/07-21.31.19.html

'Cause most shit aint simple; CF every "fallacies programmers believe about [X]".