Complicating your question can reveal a simpler answer.

Or

Complicating your problem can simplify your solution.

Or

Complicating problems can be the simplest way to a simpler solution. (Eh.)

Or

Simple means, complex ends. Complex means, simple ends. (Spare formulation, but not as universal as stated.)

If simple means are producing a complex end, try complex means to produce a simple end. (Candidate Oblique Strategy?)

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(Expect more iterations. I’ve used a distillery metaphor to justify complexity as a means to simplicity: If you wish to distill simplicity, you must first mash up and stir together a mess of many particulars, then let it ferment, and only then can you produce something new to distill.)