Probably not, but you are pointing out kind of an oddity in the adage. Complexity should always live on the side of the developer, not the user. Any design choice that says, "We could figure out how to do this, but we didn't, so we'll make the user do it for us" is just outright bad. That's not an adage; that's just an injunction not to be a bad designer.

What's more interesting is that even within the domain of the user space, there is an irreducible complexity. You can push it around, but you can't make it go away. Figuring which users you will inconvenience, how often, and how bad it will be -- that's the artistry.