Why make it complicated when it can be simple?

As well as in keyboard construction, since around 1800 a standardization of keyboard-playing technique also developed.
12312345 became the norm. In previous centuries this was not the case. Every region and every period had its own playing technique.
But it is clear that fingering has an effect on articulation. Or, vice versa, articulation prefers a specific, appropriate fingering technique.
Just like in languages - if I try to speak Italian using German grammatical structure, it will be problematic. English using French structure makes comprehension difficult. Vocabulary and sentence structure must fit together. Music is just the same.
When the correct fingering fits the articulation and comprehensability that makes the playing technique easier, playing becomes more pleasurable.
Historically, music developed "in practice", from improvisation and thus one can speak of a natural structure and articulation of the music.
Since the middle of the 18th century this naturalness (I deliberately avoid the term "Old fingering") has gradually fallen out of use in comparison to the modern fingering used in virtuoso piano music, and modern sheet music with prescribed fingering present a false picture, take us in a wrong direction and make playing more difficult.
Why make it complicated when it can be simple?
In the following interviews specialists in the field will express their views.

Interview with Ingo Bredenbach Teil 1
Interview with Ingo Bredenbach Teil 2
Interview with Ingo Bredenbach Teil 3
Interview with Daniel Roth