• Slow progress on results
• Blamed on everything being difficult or complicated
• With a tendency to find artificial prerequisite activities that sound plausible, but on further examination aren’t.

Things are as complex as we want to make them. Most of the time complexity is an excuse for either not wanting to do something or not knowing how to do something.

I agree with this with two additions:

Most of the time things are not at all complex, they are complicated. Those are two very different things.

Complications can be a symptom of avoidance but maybe oftentimes the work is complicated. If all the work was simple, any idiot could do it. Appreciate the real complexity of the work while you are in the act of cutting through it.

https://kellblog.com/2015/05/13/career-advice-simplifiers-go-far-complexifiers-get-stuck/