> I don't understand why so many large companies use platform abstractions. At a certain point you'd rather have your developers focusing on tackling domain co

> I don't understand why so many large companies use platform abstractions. At a certain point you'd rather have your developers focusing on tackling domain complexity, not stack complexity. If I can normalize my developers' skillsets I can shuffle them around at will to address whatever problems the business/product needs to be addressing -- quickly. Can't do that as easily if you need to do a bunch of platform-specific stuff as well.