I work in an area that requires a lot of high performance computing and there is a reason people in this area like code simplicity. Stacking layer upon layer of complex algorithms is a lot more difficult to reason about than having a simple and elegant system that's close to the metal.

There is a recent trend of building more and more complex systems, have less coupling and 'good oop'. That's all good and nice but simple code is:

  - more maintainable (a complex nest of objects & function calls all loosely coupled isn't)
  - a lot more readable
  - easier to optimize
  - better for your sanity

Some languages have build a culture of extreme complexity and are notable for building huge structures and systems to do simple tasks. Having a 50K lines of code dedicated to just inversion of control or O/R mapping makes a problem a lot more complex than it probably needs to be.