As teams grow, systems evolve, and business needs expand, architectures tend to become more complicated. However, most of this complexity is accidental — the result of rushed decisions and layered workarounds.
Simple architectures outperform complex ones for key reasons:
- Lower cost of change
- Faster onboarding for new developers
- More predictable testing
- Cleaner deployment and DevOps workflows
Even when complexity is necessary, modularizing systems minimizes its impact. Ultimately, strong architecture is defined not by how much it contains, but by how much unnecessary complexity it avoids.
