In fact easy, in terms of getting something working, trumps difficult simplicity any day of the week. Easy is part of what makes an employer want to use your technology.

The whole point of the talk is that choosing "easy" (as in easy to get started) solutions while ignoring the complexity will be harder to maintain in the long run over choosing the "simple" solution that takes a bit more time to set up. Personally, this tracks pretty closely with my experience.

(Relevant slide from the talk: https://res.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy/en/slid...)