Sure, good abstractions are good. But bad abstractions are worse than none. Think of all the nonsense abstractions about the weather before people understood an

Sure, good abstractions are good. But bad abstractions are worse than none. Think of all the nonsense abstractions about the weather before people understood and could simulate the underlying process. No one in modern weather forecasting suggests there is a way to understand that process at some high level of abstraction. Understand the low level, run the calcs.