As with all things, it's useful used properly. The codebase at my job has far too many abstractions/layers for things that do not provide any benefit for being

As with all things, it's useful used properly. The codebase at my job has far too many abstractions/layers for things that do not provide any benefit for being abstract. It was simply done because it was the "coderly" thing to do. I do agree that at the least it makes sense to separate out repository logic.