Abstraction isn't the problem, overabstraction is; and I suspect the reason the latter is so common is because people don't actually understand why and when abs

Abstraction isn't the problem, overabstraction is; and I suspect the reason the latter is so common is because people don't actually understand why and when abstraction is useful (and likewise, when it isn't), so they blindly apply it whenever they can, with the misguided notion that since abstraction is somehow a good thing, the more abstract something is, the better it is.