I’ve never found a problem where the simpler answer wasn’t better than the more complex answer.
Sometimes the process of getting to simple is complex. Sometimes understanding the simple is complex. But the simpler answer is always better long-term than the more complex.
Complex answers tend to be so because they lack courage. They make elaborate justifications and Rube-Goldberg appendages instead of taking a more direct route, because they are avoiding something difficult but true. Don’t avoid it. Run right into it. Face reality as head-on as possible.
Simplify.