Other examples: it’s rugged to have a very small number of high quality possessions you can easily throw in a backpack in under 20 minutes, including 3 outfits that cover all occasions. It’s elegant to travel with three suitcases containing everything you could possibly need to look and feel your best, including a both an ordinary and a sun umbrella.
This one highlights that the sense of “elegant” you mean is not the math & engineering sense, which is associated with minimalism.
If you asked me to guess what would be the ‘elegant’ counterpoint to ‘traveling with a carefully-curated of the very best prepper/minimalist/nomad/hiker set of gear which ensure a bare minimum of comfort’ was, I would probably say something like ‘traveling with nothing but cash/credit card/smartphone’. You have elegantly solved the universe of problems you encounter while traveling by choosing a single simple tool which can obtain nearly anything from the universe of solutions.
This one highlights that the sense of “elegant” you mean is not the math & engineering sense, which is associated with minimalism.
If you asked me to guess what would be the ‘elegant’ counterpoint to ‘traveling with a carefully-curated of the very best prepper/minimalist/nomad/hiker set of gear which ensure a bare minimum of comfort’ was, I would probably say something like ‘traveling with nothing but cash/credit card/smartphone’. You have elegantly solved the universe of problems you encounter while traveling by choosing a single simple tool which can obtain nearly anything from the universe of solutions.
Maybe “grace” is a better term than elegance?