The problem
Why it exists
A sophisticated-looking system can consume months of attention without helping the product. The hard part is separating necessary complexity from layers kept through habit, fear, or sunk cost.
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Vanity Engineering Review
Finds technical complexity that has no clear user, safety, scale, or operating reason to exist.
The approach
How it helps
- Tests every questionable layer against real users, current scale, team capacity, regulation, and failure risk.
- Proposes a simpler replacement and sets a future rule for keeping or removing the complexity.
Use it when
A good fit when...
- Architecture reviews
- Plans accumulating tools, layers, or speculative scale
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