Comment by agumonkey
Plus people with intellectual limitations are not immune to their own variant of over engineering. They will at times pile up useless layers and intermediate steps thinking they created something incredible or replicated badly something they saw on YouTube the week before.
"having as much working memory as possible as is useful. don't remember inconsequential details" isn't very actionable. someone could turn that into a blog post that only nerds would be interested in reading. I don't use that term pejoratively though.