It's brilliant tooling, and made the mundane/tedious parts of my work a lot easier.
But, I fear that the "facade of complexity" makes the output SEEM better. Someone might read a 10 page Codex generated plan with fancy diagrams / charts and have a feeling that because it is so complex, it must be good!
Same deal with text output in general. Oh, it uses a lot of big words and there's a LOT here, it must have done a lot of work to get to that point.
I find, in reality, that it takes much more effort to get to the simplest solution.
As they say, any old fella can build a bridge that stands, but it takes an engineer to build a bridge that barely stands...
But, I fear that the "facade of complexity" makes the output SEEM better. Someone might read a 10 page Codex generated plan with fancy diagrams / charts and have a feeling that because it is so complex, it must be good!
Same deal with text output in general. Oh, it uses a lot of big words and there's a LOT here, it must have done a lot of work to get to that point.
I find, in reality, that it takes much more effort to get to the simplest solution.
As they say, any old fella can build a bridge that stands, but it takes an engineer to build a bridge that barely stands...