I'm going to watch that talk later it sounds interesting. Thanks for sharing.
This may be addressed in the talk but my immediate reaction is that a truly mastercrafted tool should be both. I tend to agree that where you have to make choices lean towards long term (thats what I personally prefer at least). I think I've sometimes romanticized that attitude a little bit though and reveled in complexity for the sake of complexity.
Ideally you're building stuff thats easy to learn but takes a lifetime to master (because of depth of the field, hopefully not because of the unnecessary complexity of the tool.)
This may be addressed in the talk but my immediate reaction is that a truly mastercrafted tool should be both. I tend to agree that where you have to make choices lean towards long term (thats what I personally prefer at least). I think I've sometimes romanticized that attitude a little bit though and reveled in complexity for the sake of complexity.
Ideally you're building stuff thats easy to learn but takes a lifetime to master (because of depth of the field, hopefully not because of the unnecessary complexity of the tool.)