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Re:Ask HN: Getting tired of complexity in web development by sangnoir on Sunday October 09, 2022 @12:37AM (#33138311)
Same goes for the Y2K problem: prodigious efforts went into solving the problem, which was mostly averted. But since "nothing happened", people started asking if the whole thing was overblown.
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Re:Ask HN: Getting tired of complexity in web development by Schwolop on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @10:51PM (#33172179)
I was coming here to say that the term for a problem which when solved makes people question whether it was necessary after all is a "Wicked Problem"[1], only to then discover that that's not it at all. So now I'm stumped - what is the word for that?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_problem

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