When viewing Dieter Rams' principles from an engineering perspective (i.e. thinking about design requirements) they stop being the hard and fast 'rules' a lot of designers treat them as.
For example, a professional video editor doesn't have to be simple (in fact it probably shouldn't be), but it can still be a good design.
iMovie is completely different, simplicity is a huge part of its design, but that doesn't make it better or worse. It simply has different design requirements.
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