(25-11-2019, 04:28 AM)z3bra Wrote: I tend to disagree, simplicity of a tool can have a direct impact on its usage.

Simplicity of design doesn't dictate how friendly is the interface. Modern computers, for example, are the pinnacle of complexity, still most people learn to use them without much effort (currently more true for smartphones, but they are basically portable computers).

(25-11-2019, 04:28 AM)z3bra Wrote: In the above case, the simplicity of one tool in regard of the other is about what it can do, not how it is made.

Doing less is being minimal not necessarily simple, otherwise we could never have simplicity; one time that we mix a lot of small and simple things the result would always, at some point, be complexity. But we already exist in a state distant from simple (what would make everything that we produce complex by nature)

(25-11-2019, 04:28 AM)z3bra Wrote: Software simplicity is hard if you ask me.

True. The correct ways are always harder