That looks like a great (that is, horrifying) example of the problem where the extra complexity introduced by the abstractions is actually greater than any comp

That looks like a great (that is, horrifying) example of the problem where the extra complexity introduced by the abstractions is actually greater than any complexity they successfully hide. It’s frightening how often this happens at all scales, from little utility functions with names that are several times as long as their implementations right up to the kind of enterprise architecture that nightmares are made of.