That would be true if abstraction were a cosmic force that radiated in all directions equally, a Hegelian horror trip anihilating all meaning so to speak. But

That would be true if abstraction were a cosmic force that radiated in all directions equally, a Hegelian horror trip anihilating all meaning so to speak. But most of the time, we are abstracting away something specific in order to make something else more concrete and less obscured by irrelevant detail, hence reducing complexity. Of course abstraction can go wrong, because sometimes we abstract away things that are very relevant, perhaps in futile pursuit of future code reuse. But having the tools for abstraction does not make abstraction go wrong. We do.