Design too much, build just enough

"Overengineering is the hallmark of an inexperienced engineer" This is the narrative pushed in computer science classrooms and work places accross the world. The simplest solution is always the best solution. Complicated solutions are bad. I believed it. I sank hours into redesigning systems to make them as simple as possible, desperate to show others that I know what I'm doing, despite being a student. Then spent hours redesigning again once I realised I had gone too far. At the end of the day,