Comment by aleph_minus_one

> It’s watching the profession collectively decide that the solution to uncertainty is to pile abstraction on top of abstraction until no one can explain what’s actually happening anymore.

No profession collectively made such a decision. Programming was always very splitted into many, many subcultures, each with their own (mutually incompatible over the whole profession) ideas what makes a good program.

So, I guess rather some programmers inside some part of a Silicon Valley echo chamber in which you also live made such a decision.