complexifier

Noun

 * 1) Someone or something that introduces complexity into an issue or situation
 * 2) * 2011, Scott Berkun, Mindfire: Big Ideas for Curious Minds, BookBaby, pt. 26:
 * Complexifiers are averse to reduction. Instinctively they turn basic assignments into quagmires and reject simple ideas until they’re buried in layers of abstraction.
 * 1) * 2011, Scott Berkun, Mindfire: Big Ideas for Curious Minds, BookBaby, pt. 26:
 * Complexifiers are averse to reduction. Instinctively they turn basic assignments into quagmires and reject simple ideas until they’re buried in layers of abstraction.
 * Complexifiers are averse to reduction. Instinctively they turn basic assignments into quagmires and reject simple ideas until they’re buried in layers of abstraction.

Usage notes
The word can have positive and negative connotations, depending on the context and the speaker’s viewpoint. A complexifier may introduce much-needed complexity into an issue that would otherwise suffer from unwarranted oversimplification. Or a complexifier may make an essentially simple situation unnecessarily complex.

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1) to complexify, complicate