Simplicity doesn't scale?

K.I.S.S.

Keep It Simple Stupid

A noble sentiment, but potentially naive

Keeping things simple only works at a certain scale

But once you grow beyond a certain number, adding complexity to the system is inevitable

RE Dunbar’s number

“ Dunbar's number is a suggested cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships—relationships in which an individual knows who each person is and how each person relates to every other person.

This number was first proposed in the 1990s by British anthropologist Robin Dunbar, who found a correlation between primate brain size and average social group size. By using the average human brain size and extrapolating from the results of primates, he proposed that humans can comfortably maintain 150 stable relationships.”

Extrapolate thus and you’ll most likely find the reason why things are the way they are