Ha, resonates completely with me. I think it takes time and experience to hate on complexity... and maybe also just age because your brain cache becomes worse and smaller, and you have seen enough "smart" things fail, also your own ones.

And that..

> Maybe I'm lazy, but I'd sit there and think of half a dozen other ways to do it before settling on changing the module itself.

Yeah, one aatribute of good engineers is that they are lazy in the right way ;)