I guess it may help achieving Goethes “In der Beschränkung zeigt such erst der Meister” (“the master shows himself through restriction” / Antoine de Saint Exupery’s “la perfection soit atteinte non quand il n'y a plus rien à ajouter, mais quand il n'y a plus rien à retrancher” (“perfection is not achieved when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away”)

If you have little to work with, adding stuff often forces you to remove or shrink something else.