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OP is proposing you solve the problem if no one else has a solution. You are proposing to solve the problem by simplifying. I don't think these need to be mutually exclusive pieces of advice.

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I think what he's trying to say is that if you find yourself with problems that none of the senior people have had to solve before, it's very likely that you are modeling the target system as the wrong problem. As a strawman example, "how can i make a new class inherit from multiple classes" is attacking the wrong problem (multiple inheritance), but a junior person might not be aware that it's the wrong problem.

Or the question is "can we solve this better with the actor model", which is what I asked my team last week.

None of us has any experience with the actor model, but rather than dismissing the question, we're investigating.

If the senior people have never had to solve the problem before, how can they know if it's a valid problem?

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