The only simplicity for which I would give a straw is that which is on the other side of the complex — not that which never has divined it.
Engineers speak half–jokingly about Murphy's Law: "If anything can go wrong, it will." But complexity stands under a second law as well. Let me call it Drucker's law: "If one thing goes wrong, everything else will, and at the same time."
There is a point of complexity beyond which a business is no longer manageable.
Scholars learn never to be satisfied with a simple narrative.