Some of it is wasted, some is genuinely useful and to know which is which you need experience and good judgment. My point is that it is incredibly easy to fall

Some of it is wasted, some is genuinely useful and to know which is which you need experience and good judgment. My point is that it is incredibly easy to fall into the trap of pursuing maximum code beauty and abstraction and wasting a lot of time in trying to attain some shining ideal, especially if the language is conducive to it.