Yet, someone has to know this stuff, or be capable of learning how it works and as a consequence be able to work on those arcane layers. Otherwise we stand no c

Yet, someone has to know this stuff, or be capable of learning how it works and as a consequence be able to work on those arcane layers. Otherwise we stand no chance of finding new, more general abstractions to construct a stack of fewer abstractions in total. We probably won't get to fewer abstractions, but to avoid making the problem get worse even faster, we need some counterweight.