While you can argue whether simpler models are inherently better—basically arguing about the “texture” of the universe we live in—simple models definitely generalize better, so if you act based on a simpler model you have better confidence that things will work “as expected”. Flip coin of this is that to have confidence in complex models you need a lot more data, which is expensive in all kinds of ways.
You could claim that human attraction to simple models is due to their low cost/better generalization rather than b/c “texture of the world” is simple, though unification if physics seems to indicate the later.
While you can argue whether simpler models are inherently better—basically arguing about the “texture” of the universe we live in—simple models definitely generalize better, so if you act based on a simpler model you have better confidence that things will work “as expected”. Flip coin of this is that to have confidence in complex models you need a lot more data, which is expensive in all kinds of ways.
You could claim that human attraction to simple models is due to their low cost/better generalization rather than b/c “texture of the world” is simple, though unification if physics seems to indicate the later.