[mcms]

Anemic objects and whether they are harmful or harmless has been debated in software engineering for long.

I find over-relying on encapsulation more harmful than useful nowadays specially if you are going to write scalable software that are inherently distributed. For example, hiding accessing a database behind a simple getter function makes another programmer ignore performance implication and other issues that may arise.

[qwertyuiop924]

Yes, but OTOH, it lessens the likelyhood of errors, and means you'll have to rewrite minimum amounts of code when you, say, switch from MySQL to Postgres.

Abstraction always lessens awareness of that which is abstracted. Decide where to draw the line for your app.