Interesting read but what is becoming clear that there are too many cooks in the kitchen: language, library, OS API, OS and, to some degree, the HW itself. How

Interesting read but what is becoming clear that there are too many cooks in the kitchen: language, library, OS API, OS and, to some degree, the HW itself. How can you create a usable abstraction if there are so many pieces, each with their own idiosyncracies.