Why?...because fucking management is dumb AF....at the end of the day, I need a paycheck.
Management isn't dumb. They have incentives that are different than yours, and they chase their own incentives.
Not evangelizing Ruby,
You should, it's a great language.
It definitely is much more effort and takes more skill and experience to respect KISS than just heap complexity on complexity
It doesn't take more effort (it does take more skill). Some people say it takes more time up front, and that may be true, but it pays off within days if not hours or even minutes (meaning total time required is less).
There are several reasons for this:
1) A major part of KISS is reducing redundancy. You are literally writing fewer lines of code.
2) The benefit of refactoring tends to begin earlier rather than later (ie, move your methods around, rename variables) within the first 500 lines of code.
3) Most of the time of software development is in testing. Well written code requires less testing.
etc
What in modern society requires signing up for monthly payments to any service? The only thing that even comes close for the average person is renting a property to live in.
Even if electric power, water, sewer, trash pickup, and gas for indoor heating (in areas that get snow) are included in your rent, other services with recurring payments include home and mobile Internet access, renter's insurance, car insurance, and health insurance.
Even the streaming services I have either have month to month options or bill me for the full year at the time of purchase. I don't need to use any of them as I could always choose to rent or purchase to own any of the content on those services.
A lot of shows on streaming services are never released on DVD.
The problem with "management" is that management is dumb and often greedy and cannot do long-term planning.
They can do long term planning, but their incentives are about doing things that improve their own career. (If you want people to change, their incentives need to change).
When I've asked others what has improved about GitHub over the past seven years of ownership by Microsoft, people have told me free private repositories are the big one.
The entire school of foreign policy from Kissinger - Hillary Clinton as sec-State need to be told to just STFU.
The Ukraine war is one parting present from the old snake Kissinger. If he can't play ball, no one can.
A bug in the code is worth two in the documentation.