Simple is good, yes. Always preferable.
Simple does not always equate with well designed, however.
Simple AND well designed... that's elegant.
Creating a system whereby you have to wrestle with the bike or come up with some mono-buttocked kludge just to do something fundamental like check the oil level is not elegant IMHO.
Nothing to be done about it, of course. Just griping.
BTW, yeah, I've got a mirror on a stick, too.
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