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> Maybe it's a defeatist attitude, but I feel like sometimes the problem is the problem, and pushing abstractions only works to defer the requirements to understand it

That's also my impression and experience.

And sometimes there is no problem at all, but abstractions are still pushed too far and then a problem arises in the form of non-essential complexity.



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