Reality is inherently complex, while fiction can be simplified.
Truth, bound to explain reality, often demands complexity. Those who favor simplicity reshape truth as fiction: simple.
Consider the oddity in this “preference for simplicity” when applied to labor: cognitive labor is complex and dabbles in the fictional as it simultaneously complicates and creates/narrates the world, while manual effort is seen as dumb, machine-like simplicity, yet it is based entirely on reality.
The truth/fiction and complex/simple comparison falters, with much labor based upon once complex and seemingly fictional theories that are obviously truthful now but reduced to accessibility.