Is There a Minimum?

Gs: I'm not a designer by any means, but i can make something that looks fairly good to modern standards. When i look like a iphone, what i notice is my brains confused, and it's hard to focus on anything,. You just see all these silhouettes that are the same rounded rectangles. And so if you just keep taking things away sometimes and makes it actually just impossible to understand what's going on. The cynical part of my brain is like, well, it's very obvious that if there's less stuff to work on, you have to do less work... But quite often i don't do that. Quite often i just ok, this is not