No it doesn't. If your work is easy, the scale gets ratcheted up until it's nearly impossible. That's why web devs have so much trouble with the seemingly-simple task of parsing and producing text
If the equilibrium is always reached, then why wouldn’t I make it easy on myself by making things that are easy to maintain? I want fixing issues to be like blowing out a birthday candle, not dealing with a forest fire? I’d rather blow out 20 candles than deal with a single forest fire.
1. It's hard to estimate what will or won't be easy to maintain down the line;
2. New tech becomes hot new tech because it promises to be easy to maintain down the line;
3. Most of the maintenance burden is due to choices of other people anyway, so you have limited control over that.
Trying new tech is often a bet on the promise of better maintainability turning out true. It usually doesn't, but the status quo is so bad already that people are grasping at straws.
I tend to stop trusting people/companies/industries which break promise after promise. I want to go with solutions which have proven themselves to be true and stood the test of time. It needs to be worth people’s time to learn, not just today, but in 5 years.
A lot of times tech is so focused on the tech that they forget about real problem they’re trying to solve.
