I think I failed to emphasize the "If". :) I wasn't offering a comparison, so much as posing a framing device in order to ask a question: if minimal abstraction

I think I failed to emphasize the "If". :) I wasn't offering a comparison, so much as posing a framing device in order to ask a question: if minimal abstraction is 1, and highly abstracted is 10, what's the best-practice/modern web equivalent of 2-3?