> Why in the world has this idiotic trend of abstracting everything away by layers upon layers of complexity gained such a strong foothold in the industry? Thi

> Why in the world has this idiotic trend of abstracting everything away by layers upon layers of complexity gained such a strong foothold in the industry? This probably is because the industry wants backwards compatibility. It almost seems a miracle we have finally switched to Python 3 and stopped importing Unicode support "from the future".