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[–] Astiolo@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This can be called the bike shed effect or Law of Triviality. It's not just programming where a simple digestible idea will be contested because it's easy to poke holes, while something more complicated and more consequential is much harder, so it gets little to no resistance.