All real-world domains are far more complicated than software engineers first suspect, because any simple domain will be made complicated as we try to do more and more with it. I'm reading an anthropology book on pottery and every culture with it rapidly made their processes ultra complicated

In every culture the complexity was incrementally added by experts already familiar with the existing processes, so no big deal. Then 3000 years later archaeologists/software engineers with no background look at the final processes and go "wtf"

i’d say complex rather than complicated everything gets more involved!

which book?