Wirth's law

"Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster."
-- Niklaus Wirth (February 1995). "A Plea for Lean Software".

I think this is something we here on /prog/ can clearly see. Programmers keep making things more and more complex/bloated shit for no good reason. Almost nobody cares about lean, fast, responsive, optimized software. Sad times.

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Anyone could write a few dozen of the simple C programs PER DAY.

Maybe you think that because they are small, but a lot of thought goes into thinking about the best way to do it. Check out st, for example. http://git.suckless.org/st/tree/
That's clearly not a one-day project, you are undervaluing their work.

you'll start missing useful features because they're "inelegant" or "use too much code"

There's a trade-off between "useful" and "complex". Is the feature useful enough that it justifies making the codebase more complex? If it does, the feature is added. If it doesn't, it isn't. We can't have it all.