Isolated we all agree on this, i.e. speed is important. But you constantly see high praise for many of the technologies that facilitate this "slowness" creeping

Isolated we all agree on this, i.e. speed is important. But you constantly see high praise for many of the technologies that facilitate this "slowness" creeping into apps and websites. With each level of abstraction we loose speed; either it's languages that "compile" to other languages, or ORM's, or frameworks that solve different tasks, but when stacked on top of each other; everything feels like mud..