Productivity
Merchants of complexity
Last updated 2026-07-25 · benchmark measured 2026-08-09 — deterministic & reproducible
A blog post arguing that software vendors profit by making things unnecessarily complex.
Is Merchants of complexity production-ready?
Legit.Show scores Merchants of complexity 66 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Merchants of complexity (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Accessibility; its weakest is Discoverability. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.
The 7 Frames
- Performance — 92/100
- Accessibility — 100/100
- Security — 80/100
- Privacy — 25/100
- Reliability — 67/100
- Standards — 85/100
- Discoverability — 10/100
What we measured
- Security headers present: HSTS, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy.
- No Content-Security-Policy.
- Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
- Real Lighthouse performance run — 243 ms to first byte.
- 0 of 0 sampled routes reachable.
- No privacy policy found.
- Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
- Discoverable: sitemap.
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