My point today is that, if we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as “lines produced” but as “lines spent”: the current conventional wisdom is so foolish as to book that count on the wrong side of the ledger.
I'm yet to encounter a point in my career where KISS fails me. OTOH this is nothing new, I don't have my hopes up that the current trends of overcomplicating things are going to change in the near future.
Eventually, you come to realise that the more tech you've got, the more problems you have. .
Now developers spend more time googling errors and plugging in libraries and webservices together than writing any actual code.
Sometimes I wish for a techless cloudless revolution when we just go back to the foundations of computers and is use plain text wherever possible.