Ain't no-one (other than Max) heard the acronym KISS?

My contention after 40 years programming (is FORTRAN archaic enough for you?) that: "complexity" rises to the square of the number of lines (or elements).

The more you do, the even more (to the square law) you have to check. If you don't believe me - just look at Micro$oft's record on bug fixes.

There are those that disagree with the square law, and put it at cubic or quartic. All I would say in that respect is: the number of failure modes is exceedingly vast by comparison with the successful functionality you wanted in the first place. And you can't imagine all of the failure mechanisms in advance - it is people dependant and there are a lot of people out there!

Max does what he can based on resources, not ability (IMNSHO).