This sentiment is pretty common I guess. Outside of a niche, the massive scale for which a vast majority of the data tech was designed doesn't exist and KISS wins outright. Though I guess that's evolution, we want to test the limits in pursuit of grandeur before mastering the utility (ex. pyramids).
KISS doesn't get me employed though. I narrowly missed being the chosen candidate for a State job which called for Apache Spark experience. I missed two questions relating to Spark and "what is a parquet file?" but otherwise did great on the remaining behavioral questions (the hiring manager gave me feedback after requesting it). Too bad they did not have a question about processing data using command lines tools.
