Disclaimer: Don’t take this too seriously … this is “thinking-in-progress” :)
It just struck me the other minute, how simplicity is the key theme behind two very important areas in software development, that I’ve been dabbling with quite a bit recently: Testing, and automation.
Have you thought about how testing, in its essence, is: Wrapping complex code, which you can’t mentally comprehend completely, in simple code, that you can mentally comprehend, at least one test at a time.