"With C you can shoot your own foot. With C++ you can blow your own leg off". I feel the same is true here. The abstraction may be right at the time of writing

"With C you can shoot your own foot. With C++ you can blow your own leg off". I feel the same is true here. The abstraction may be right at the time of writing, yet further on it often becomes not only wrong, but a massive hindrance. With time and effort, hacky code and be worked into shape. An eventual wrong abstraction normally means a rewrite.