It's almost impossible to avoid over-engineering these days. I can't make other people generate minimalist code. Before AI, you could reach alignment with your team members and produce high quality, minimal code, but nowadays I find it impossible because:

- People believe they will be able to maintain code just as easily as they can generate it and it's hard to explain the asymmetry to people who haven't experienced it themselves.

- People don't feel like coding is a craft anymore so they don't care about how the code looks. They just want it to appear like it's working and don't care about anything else. As a team leader, you can't get people to overcome this deep sense of apathy they feel towards the code.