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I don't think it's thinly veiled at all. Some people might be deluding themselves into thinking they aren't losing something by abstracting away the intricacies of the runtime but I imagine most are actively thinking they are okay with this tradeoff. Instead they are allowed to focus more on the domain problems and let their users tell them when it gets to be too slow. Whether it's the right trade off probably depends on what their goals are.