I am just saying over and over that the over-engineering part itself can come from a "requirement", which seems to be the contentious position here.
Some other people mentioned the doorbell project was over-engineering and I just agreed with them.
Some other people mentioned the doorbell project was over-engineering and I just agreed with them.
So I don't agree that you can call mrb's basic wireless doorbell "overengineered" for requirements reasons alone without opening yourself up to the same scrutiny that you're applying to him.
Then we are in agreement!
The person who originally called it "overengineered" wasn't me, it was another user.
I did joke that an electric doorbel "does a similar job" but that was to demonstrate that "similar" is also a judgement call.
I am just saying that lukeify or anyone can call it overengineered from their point of view, similar to how GP called commercial products overengineered.