I thought there was a word for this. Where you take a basic problem that exists and the best solution already exists and any effort we put into solving the problem would actually cause more work for us thus becoming a bigger problem.
Learn English – The solution to the problem is more complicated than the problem
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The phrase I use is "the cure is worse than the disease". I can't think of a single word that is in general use for that.