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This is absurd — this mentality can be used to argue against literally every form of abstraction ever. The entire reason we have abstractions is to avoid writing the same redundant code over and over, with the associated likelihood of bugs due to typos.

What makes map more cryptic than literally any of the abstractions already in that example? Make is abstracting away GC-based memory allocation, indexing is abstracting away pointer arithmetic, and so on. Why are those abstractions fine, but "apply this function to everything in a collection" is somehow impenetrable voodoo?

"Simple and straightforward" often just boils down to "reams and reams of boilerplate code", where catching bugs is hard because it's impossible to notice a slight errors in one out of a hundred reimplementations of the same function.