Breaking abstraction layers will kill productivity. There's one article that gets posted to HN every year but I can't find it atm. It's about how long it would

Breaking abstraction layers will kill productivity. There's one article that gets posted to HN every year but I can't find it atm. It's about how long it would take to do something from scratch. Taking it into the extreme, including growing your own crops. For computers that would be like mining your own silicon in order to build a CPU, so you can build a PC, to build a boot-loader, a OS, a compiler, a web browser. It will take you years to write that "hello world" program. If you find a bug in a compiler, then that's one day of work gone to debug and path it. Same with libraries, having to write pull requests to the libraries will take time away from whatever you where working on. Leaky abstractions are worse then abstractions. If things are hidden, it will take extra time to dig them out, you could just as well have them all in the open.