You missed a key point of the essay, which is that no matter how much progress we make in accidental complexity, essential complexity does not go away.
Of course that's the key point of the essay, but I've never observed that anyone who says "There's no silver bullet in productivity" has made it past the desire to misuse the title of a Fred Brooks essay to support a middlebrow dismissal to the nuance of distinguishing between accidental and essential complexity.
After all, much of programming culture is stuck on the idea that the clarity of syntax of a programming languages to novices is more important to maintainability of programs written in that language than domain knowledge, for example.
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You missed a key point of the essay, which is that no matter how much progress we make in accidental complexity, essential complexity does not go away.
Of course that's the key point of the essay, but I've never observed that anyone who says "There's no silver bullet in productivity" has made it past the desire to misuse the title of a Fred Brooks essay to support a middlebrow dismissal to the nuance of distinguishing between accidental and essential complexity.
After all, much of programming culture is stuck on the idea that the clarity of syntax of a programming languages to novices is more important to maintainability of programs written in that language than domain knowledge, for example.