Yes, but people are widely familiar with certain concepts. Hating "clever code" doesn't mean hating any abstraction or good elegant ideas (like function calls).

Yes, but people are widely familiar with certain concepts. Hating "clever code" doesn't mean hating any abstraction or good elegant ideas (like function calls). The thing is that this stuff has already been in circulation for so long, and many of the good ideas have been found. If you tried to come up with new solutions for function calls, people would understandably be skeptical.