[userbinator]

I'm not sure. Me and my coworkers have been saying similar things for a while, and it's not really that deep of an observation. Abstraction can't always magically make things easier. It just moves the complexity around, and often increases it if used unnecessarily.

[twic]

Right, it's very similar to things i've said too, but clearly and succinctly put!

I see a similar problem with the common preference for unit tests over integration tests. The mistakes in a system tend to be in the interactions between parts, not in the parts themselves, and by construction, unit tests can't test those.