[UglyToad]

Exactly right, transactions being the killer/most common one.

And the proposed solutions of hooks, AOP etc all start down the road of scattering actual logic across files and methods making the code harder to reason about which seems to be the worst part of overeager abstraction.

The library Automapper from C# is another place I run into this a lot. At its core it simply maps from domain to dto properties but you soon end up needing awful unwieldy configs and magic. I'd rather have a few hundred lines of obvious mapping than ever work with automapper again.