Sounds about right:
While I was proud of it, there was suddenly a problem when I talked to my manager about it. βWhile I understand how complex this was, when it comes to performance reviews, this code looks trivial. It looks too easy, too simple. I would recommend writing an implementation doc of this module just so we can demonstrate that this was actually quite complex.β

Clever code is probably the worst code you could write
And clear, readable code is probably the hardest code to write


