alt Hacker News* in idiotic organizations.
I've was promoted for producing a significantly simplified replacement for an existing system that was critical. it happened because the culture rewards engineering excellence.
* in idiotic organizations.
I've was promoted for producing a significantly simplified replacement for an existing system that was critical. it happened because the culture rewards engineering excellence.
It sounds like they had a previously complex (and I assume problematic) system to compare it to. When complexity is causing problems and the job is to simplify to get rid of problems, it will be rewarded.
If it was made simple from the start, it would have likely been seen as an easy and solved problem, and you never would have been brought in, as no one would ever think about it again.