[malfist]

There's a balance to strike, right? Some complexity is just for complexity's sake, or out of inexperience or incompetence. But yeah, a lot of it is that the real world is complicated. That's convoluted code is solving for a bug an engineer was woken up at night for.

And it can be really hard to tell the difference

[ldjkfkdsjnv]

People just get burned by bad programmers. So they make up all these rules to safe guard against them. Its not abstraction thats the problem, its low quality engineers.