It’s presumed needlessly complicated is necessary to make the line go up; behind the scenes, they say, mathmagical forces exist that only the chosen few truly understand. You see everything is really a graph of infinite brand names, and the flow of value is determined by the taxonomy of brand ownership.
Many a study have been attempted to quantify what character qualities or technologies boost productivity. Their model becomes so nebulous no reasonable conclusions can be made.
But now of course computers learning helps us untangle that web and low and behold the same economic winners emerged! Wow!