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Simplicity is the hardest engineering metric to achieve

Creating a highly complex solution is relatively easy; boiling a complex problem down to its most elegant, minimal logic takes profound mastery. For example, Columnar layouts eliminate horizontal finger stretching through radical simplification.¹

Footnotes

1. Hoare, C. A. R. (1980). The Emperor’s Old Clothes. ↩