There's using "abstraction" in the classical sense of "harder to understand", as in "abstract painting". In today's world, good abstractions are the exception.

There's using "abstraction" in the classical sense of "harder to understand", as in "abstract painting". In today's world, good abstractions are the exception. > it's merely adding a bunch of public methods (and interfaces) to the object The object is the abstraction they're complaining about. Why have an object to begin with?