[bluefirebrand]

I scare the absolute crap out of a lot of Junior developers when I tell them this.

I once said, jokingly, that "Actually, abstractions in code are bad" to a Junior and I'm pretty sure he considered quitting on the spot.

But I do think a lot of this stuff, designed to give everyone a common code philosophy, is actually just resulting in a lot of unnecessarily overcomplicated code.