Hard isn’t inherently complicated and simple isn’t inherently easy. A commitment to those ideals is wildly complicated. To pick a child-rearing-relevant example, saying sorry and taking responsibility is simple and easy, but such a difficult thing to achieve, even for adults, and is rife with complicated and complicating emotions and relationships.

Well it’s just under specified.

The adult world doesn't have to be far more complicated than that.

The dissonance is deafening. Especially since the most successful people in our society are not doing any of those 3 things.