Abstraction needs to be made to earn its keep. The massively abstracted linker in TFA was, exactly, an unmaintainable, fragile disaster. It was so bad they had

Abstraction needs to be made to earn its keep. The massively abstracted linker in TFA was, exactly, an unmaintainable, fragile disaster. It was so bad they had to rewrite it from scratch. The new one certainly has abstractions of its own. Less harmful ones.