That's a good observation. This also makes me wonder if one key reason why Ted Nelson's Project Xanadu didn't take off was because it was too complex from the start?
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It was definitely the case with the Semantic Web: a much greater up-front investment with only hypothesized pay-offs down the road. Making simple things hard is rarely going to be a popular choice.
IPv6 to a tee.
Could systemd be described by Gall's Law as well?
I would argue yes, that it’s a good success story: it took a welter of init scripts, supervisors, logging, event-triggered notification systems, configuration conventions, etc. and provided a single standard mechanism which is easier to work with than any one of those was on its own much less the number of combinations most systems have.