Rich Hickey had a great talk on this that introduced me to the word "complecting" (https://github.com/matthiasn/talk-transcripts/blob/master/Hi...)

Relatedly, I have a simple new maths for counting complexity, so that you can compare two "complex" solutions and pick the less "complicated" one: https://github.com/treenotation/research/blob/master/papers/...

SVG form: https://treenotation.org/demos/complexityCanBeCounted.svg