It's weird how that works... I try to avoid unneeded complexity as much as possible for as long as possible... and when I do need complexity, I try to make it as easy to use as possible, so that it's less in your face on reuse.

I'm consistently amazed at how much of a pain in the ass things tend to get when people try to build solutions in their early 20's, vs 30's and now in my 40's. Not to mention how much my viewpoint has changed in the past 20+ years in software.

I'm pretty happy when I can remove a bunch of dead/unused code trees, commented out swaths of crap, and refactor portions of a codebase into 1/5 the size.

I rewrote a 900 line class today by writing one generic function that encapsulated a pile of common logic that the monstrosity had copied and pasted with slight changes over, and over, and over, and over, ad nauseum, and wound up with less than 100 lines of code. What a glorious day.