# rick and morty-extra steps — Meme Lab

Use when a complicated process is revealed to be a familiar simple activity with unnecessary intermediaries.

- What it expresses: Needless procedure disguises an ordinary result as innovation or sophistication.
- Example: A startup describes ordering lunch through three tokens and a chatbot, and your friend observes that it is delivery with extra steps.
- When not to use it: The additional stages provide essential verification and prevent costly errors; they are not decorative complexity.
- Tags: extra steps, overengineering, needless complexity, same thing
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