[peterevans]

Expressiveness is not always a pure ideal; reducing your business logic to two lines of code comes with tradeoffs. The ways your code work within the frameworks you choose is not always obvious, and when something goes wrong, it's harder to point at one place within your two lines of code and say: this must be it.

The opposite is not, and should not, necessarily that you write your own versions of things; after all, if you did so, you'd still have as deep of a stack trace as you do with the third-party code!

I guess, if I encountered this stack trace, I might say there's something of a code smell there. But, hey--this is also fairly old code, and I suspect things are Better Now, so let's not be so quick to cast stones!