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1.  a chess master, 2. the parent of a teenager, and 3. a doctor at the Mayo Clinic, would wager... :- )
Occam's Razor being more a political idea that tenured profs sell to the general public, as opposed to anything that physicists use when developing their equations...
We have a little joke in tourney chess, when consoling a loser...  'So you opted for the simple and in-effective' ... :- )
Real life IMHO tends to be complex much more often than it tends to be the first guess you had in mind... nobody was going to be able to guess the structure of an atom in 1500 BC, and I'm not real confident that the origin of matter and energy (the debate in which Occam's Razor became popular) was any simpler ...
Occam's Razor sounds good until you are the one responsible for actually getting Franklin Gutierrez back onto the field and hitting home runs...
When advancing the body of knowledge in a field, fresh data and precision in analysis mean a lot more than a taste for simplicity...