Further, sometimes 1 thing is overloaded in difficult-to-understand ways, and so there should be more things, not fewer. Sometimes there are many things that should be 1 thing.
There isn't just one good measurement of complexity, as complexity isn't inherent to things or systems in themselvesas, rather complexity is a feature of perception, which gets confused in all sorts of irreducible ways.
The usage in that case is a term of art. So silly. Again, no one uses the word complex to mean many (except in very narrow circumstances when the new definition that no one uses has to be indicated explicitly in order to prevent confusion given the fact that it is a novel usage).
Further, sometimes 1 thing is overloaded in difficult-to-understand ways, and so there should be more things, not fewer. Sometimes there are many things that should be 1 thing.
There isn't just one good measurement of complexity, as complexity isn't inherent to things or systems in themselvesas, rather complexity is a feature of perception, which gets confused in all sorts of irreducible ways.