[miltondts]

Yes, I should have typed "clean code". It's exactly what you and also what the parent said. It's about patterns/architectures/abstractions that we consider to be good/beautiful, but with very little regard for performance ("just throw more or better hardware at it, that is not our problem"). What really rubs the salt on the wound, is that the people that advocate them are quite loud, they seem to be growing in numbers and there is a massive lack of evidence for the supposed benefits, while the drawbacks are clear and easy to measure.