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I’ve never known towering abstractions to be good for maintainability, anyway. It sounds great on paper, but in practice it often ends up being extra mechanism to have to think your way through on your way to understanding a problem. Or they constrain the set of possible solutions you can undertake without major refactoring.

That isn’t to say abstractions are inherently harmful. But when I see codebases that really go nuts for it, it’s rarely the case that they were all carefully considered before implementation.