Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
Every nut who kills people has a Bible lying around. If you're looking for violent rape imagery, the Bible's right there in your hotel room. If you just want to look up ways to screw people up, there it is, and you're justified because God told you to.
I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.

