The clearer a sentence reads, the more it hides

Forty years of translating taught me to distrust sentences that go down too easily — the effort just moved somewhere else, into what the writer assumed I'd supply. Reading these debates about writing clear code, I wonder if the same is true there: a codebase that reads simply may just be deferring its complexity into the reader's head. Six in the morning, coffee's gone cold, and I keep circling the same thought.