Ozzie, Lotus Notes and Simplicity?

This article was featured on Slashdot, and I couldn't help but laugh as I read some of the concepts that were combined together to describe Ray Ozzie, the new Chief Software Architect at Microsoft:

Mr Gates himself was once moved to declare Mr Ozzie "one of the top five programmers in the universe" and revealed that he and Mr Ballmer had wanted for more than a decade to persuade him to join Microsoft. To the outside world, Mr Ozzie's programming prowess is known mainly through Lotus Notes, the e-mail and collaboration software that he masterminded, which was acquired by IBM in 1995.
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"Complexity kills," Mr Ozzie wrote. "It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security challenges, and it causes end-user and administrator frustration."

I'm sorry... is that the architect of Lotus Notes saying that complexity kills, as if he's somehow an expert on simple software?  Did I read that right?  Lotus Notes is probably one of the worst, and most bloated pieces of email and collaboration software I've ever had the misfortune to use.  I pray... pray... that software at Microsoft (despite its problems) doesn't regress further by following the Notes model.