These abstraction layers solve problems. Propietary DRM binary blobs try to solve a problem that is impossible to solve: how do you show content to someone and

These abstraction layers solve problems. Propietary DRM binary blobs try to solve a problem that is impossible to solve: how do you show content to someone and simultaneously hide it? So the only way out is to make it inconceivably expensive for an attacker, which leads the way to obfuscation, and eventually, as we have seen, invasive technology like kernel modules and other nonsense. They keep on adding abstraction layers, but the other way around: going ever deeper. I personally see no value in providing an API to someone trying to solve the halting problem. Especially not if the next step is having them pressure us into installing their distributed halting problem solver.