I tend to agree. To me, this is a good fit for some kind of 'fairly simple abstraction' - even the abstraction used is fine. So long as everything worked, I t

I tend to agree. To me, this is a good fit for some kind of 'fairly simple abstraction' - even the abstraction used is fine. So long as everything worked, I think this might be a better solution. I'm fine with 'don't just refactor because' but this looks like a fairly clean cut opportunity. Social considerations aside.