The flip side is that without abstraction your code becomes an unmaintainable, fragile disaster, leading to bad outcomes for the user. It’s not as simple in a complex system as you make it out to be.
Abstraction needs to be made to earn its keep. The massively abstracted linker in TFA was, exactly, an unmaintainable, fragile disaster. It was so bad they had to rewrite it from scratch. The new one certainly has abstractions of its own. Less harmful ones.
With way too much abstraction your code also "becomes an unmaintainable, fragile disaster, leading to bad outcomes for the user". Both extremes are terrible. And GP is not advocating using no abstractions.
