Something I was batting round yesterday was the idea of a razor for making the 'lightest touch' change to a thing in preference to looking for a more developed solution. This has kept cropping up for me in the context of making revisions to work in response to edit notes. Sometimes, a small, almost lazy-feeling change will satisfy the note and resolve the issue, even if there may be more sophisticated or involved approaches that might address the issue somewhat better.
The 'somewhat' is the key factor there. Obviously, if a small change is underbaked or doesn't work, it's a non-starter. But there's the notion of 'good enough', and virtue in not breaking apart a piece of work more than you have to (because you'll have to stitch it back together again afterwards).
I keep wanting to call this 'de minimis', which means something different. Or perhaps 'the principle of least change', which Google seems to conflate with the Principle of Least Action.
Looking into it further, I realise this is really a broad reading of Occam's Razor/the Law of Parsimony. I've internalised that as 'when deciding between a set of competing equally likely probabilities, choose the one that relies on the fewest assumptions', but a more general reading appears to be 'it is futile to do with more what can be done with fewer', which is exactly what I'm describing here.
Perhaps 'tactu levi', as in tactu levi recenset scriptor -- 'the writer revises with a light touch', by analogy with 'de minimis', which is a shortening of de minimis non curat lex -- 'the law does not concern itself with trifling matters'.
(Also my Latin is exceedingly, embarassingly rusty, so it's perfectly possible that I've mangled my own formation here somehow.)