One point about abstractions that you might want to make in a future article is that developers tend to discount the cost of all abstractions that they have internalized. Therefore when they get to a new environment, they immediately try to recreate and incorporate the abstractions that they used previously.

However these abstractions are not free. They are not free for performance. They are not free for debugging. And they are especially not free for any future developer who is not familiar with them.

The joke I grew up with was, "Andy giveth, and Bill taketh away." It is no longer Intel under Andrew Grove who gives us better performance. It is no longer Microsoft under Bill Gates who gives us slower software. But the basic phenomena is still true. Hardware improves over time. But developers happily introduce abstractions with no awareness of the associated costs.