You think elegance in design can negate complexity? Complexity has no ceiling.
Good design can only lower complexity. Complexity itself cannot be negated. I can point to a million more examples, here's one:
Red Dead Redemption 2 the video game. Name one programmer who understands every single system in that game.
Look at Alan Kay's work with VPRI to see what a few brilliant minds can accomplish when looking at things from radically new perspectives.