The best engineers are the ones that can take really complicated problems and turn them into easy to implement and easy to understand solutions. It sounds simple, but there aren't many engineers/developers like that who exist. In fact there aren't many people like that who exist. In reality the majority of the people out there do exactly the opposite. They take simple problems and complicate them beyond recognition. Just look at our politicians for an example of people who manage to take simple problems and turn them into total chaos. Programmers are no different in this regard.