Simplicity is a hard thing. As the legendary Jony Ive, Apple's former Chief Design Officer, …
The more pain the working team soaks up now, the less pain for thousands or eve millions of eventual users out there, and therefore a more delightful experience for them. How much pain are you absorbing in order to reduce your user's pain?
— the simplicity playbook for innovators by Jin Kang Moller (Page 115)
I guess I should have an ornamental pain sponge for those difficult days as well.