Last winter I replaced a twelve-tab settings panel with one switch, two labels, and a line of help text. The team worried it would look unfinished; by Friday, support tickets had fallen because people finally knew what the machine would do.
The useful surface is the honest one
A product page has the same obligation as a clock radio: show the state, reveal the control, and then get out of the room. In our February release notes we removed four badges, six tooltips, and every decorative gradient; nothing important became harder to find.