I understand the author’s point yet think it’s OK.
Why? Because when I encounter “simple” in that context I read “If you understand the domain this package allows you to perform calculations (or whatever) and will operate in a way you will expect”.
Some examples: IEEE floating point is a simple FP standard, even though the document is really long and full of non-obvious cases and a couple of footguns for the naive. It’s simple for someone doing serious numerics (and even simple for a most common cases with a little training) because someone put the hard work in, so the user doesn’t have to code up allot of infrastructure.
MS word makes it easy for someone like me to change font sizes, center some text etc, but a sophisticated designer probably fights Word’s DWIM and would prefer a more sophisticated tool with more knobs, because that would be simpler for hem to use.
Why? Because when I encounter “simple” in that context I read “If you understand the domain this package allows you to perform calculations (or whatever) and will operate in a way you will expect”.
Some examples: IEEE floating point is a simple FP standard, even though the document is really long and full of non-obvious cases and a couple of footguns for the naive. It’s simple for someone doing serious numerics (and even simple for a most common cases with a little training) because someone put the hard work in, so the user doesn’t have to code up allot of infrastructure.
MS word makes it easy for someone like me to change font sizes, center some text etc, but a sophisticated designer probably fights Word’s DWIM and would prefer a more sophisticated tool with more knobs, because that would be simpler for hem to use.
And so on.