I'm not sure many people are arguing that abstraction isn't good for those who are writing the code--that's the whole point of abstraction after all, to make th

I'm not sure many people are arguing that abstraction isn't good for those who are writing the code--that's the whole point of abstraction after all, to make the developer's job easier. The problems tend to crop up for other people trying to decipher and read it. Sometimes also for the machine trying to execute it.