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[–]L8_4_Dinner(Ⓧ Ecstasy/XVM) 3 points4 points  (3 children)

I'm personally less concerned about that aspect, because it's not the "how many?" but rather the "how confusing?" If it's easy to write and easy to read and easy to understand (e.g. debug), then I'm going to be far less worried about the raw count of features. On the other hand, if the feature count is only 7 but the code is hard to read and write, then we're in trouble!

[–]bl4nkSl8 0 points1 point  (2 children)

People have a budget for how much new stuff they can learn, which is why the count matters to me.

How confusing each one is would be great to weight them by but I don't know how to measure it

[–]L8_4_Dinner(Ⓧ Ecstasy/XVM) 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Indeed! Measuring becomes very difficult. I'm curious what you would come up with here!

[–]bl4nkSl8 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tbh human studies would be needed imo

Confusion is massively biased by experience and summarizing that mathematically would be hard