I think you have hit on a very important point. When you break down a "task" into very many constituent parts, its "perceived" complexity and difficulty goes up. Many "tasks" are intuitively simple and do not need to be reduced further. Doing so only hampers the performance of the "task" itself. The 80/20 rule applies here.

This "Artificial Complexity" is man-made and is the reason for our out-of-control Consumerism and its detrimental fall-outs.