We recently made a pasta dish that my sister recommended to us. She warned us, “Don’t use all the black pepper in the recipe. It’s way too much”
But we decided to try the recipe as is. Certainly that’s the way the dish was intended – maybe my sister just doesn’t like pepper as much as us. But we immediately regretted it. My sister was right – it was way too much. The pepper completely overpowered the rest of the dish.
Building great things is as much about addition as it is about subtraction.