while i don't disagree with you (i have also encountered the type of people you're referring to), i think the stance is more valid than people want to give it c

while i don't disagree with you (i have also encountered the type of people you're referring to), i think the stance is more valid than people want to give it credit for. I would go so far as to say many of the people I've encountered who push back on "abstractions" and keep talking about how programming is "about solving problems" are the ones who allow the codebase to slowly go to shit in the name of features, and progress eventually grinds to a halt until a big rewrite. And in my experience, there are _way_ more of these types of people than the ones over-abstracting. Or it's possible my last company was just skewed toward that culture. Either way, I've only known a couple people who seem to balance these concerns well and they are the best programmers I know.