circumvoluted

I am not a native speaker but the style is circumvoluted, jumping from details to details.

SQL is useful but we’ve spent decades to abstract it away, because the Java/SQL articulation is always circumvoluted, and juniors do without.

The dismantling of safety nets is a circumvoluted problem.

A circumvoluted way of reinventing an obsolete approach.

I love that, in pure French tradition, we went as far as designing a circumvoluted spelling for this word, with a « s » at the end.

[1] For €1000 sold to a customer, the employee gets a purchasing power of less than €300, even in the absence of expenses and stakeholder dividends, because our VAT is 20%, mandatory contributions 46%, income tax 10-15%, land tax 5-10%, and laws are so circumvoluted that the tax accountant takes 45€ per paysheet per employee and charge about 2000€ yearly to the company.