Abstractions have to be earned.

Abstractions have to be exposed so they can be either questioned or exuding their properly valued and time tested structural ontology.

In 2015 I wrote how a cool Smalltalk IDE in a web browser would be:

https://blog.sebastiansastre.co/posts/the-smalltalk-ide-i-wi...

Good to know so I don't do it x10 more :D

Convenience is to humans, what bulb lights at night are to bugs.

It is what drives the market quite a bit at least. It's why we've produced over 2 billion cars and use them every day to pollute our own air so we don't have to walk two blocks. Most home appliances are convenience personified, the dishwasher, the microwave, the clothes dryer. It's why we have supply chains up the wazoo to bring products from all corners of the globe to everyone's nearby supermarket, a large amount of it getting thrown away when it's expired unsold. We fly across countries for something as pointless as a business meeting. Hell people now even order a taxi for their food, so they don't have to go out to get it.

Modern life is like at least 60% wastefulness in the name of convenience. Of course people with the option to do so will exploit the one thing that's easily exploitable, that's like water flowing downhill.

Maternity is most often not "life and death." Is the maternity ward just a convenience? Or is the cost worth the benefit? You don't seem to be doing any form of honest analysis.

> Most home appliances are convenience personified, the dishwasher, the microwave, the clothes dryer.

Yes, because, those save time. It's worth having a point of view that other people saving their time, and thus freeing it for more worthwhile endeavors is ultimately a net positive for all of society. You pass these off as mere conveniences. It's a rather bleak misanthropic outlook you seem to have acquired.

> Modern life is like at least 60% wastefulness in the name of convenience.

People own cars to drive more than two blocks. You're only making the most ridiculous version of the argument and you don't have very much to back it up.

> people saving their time, and thus freeing it for more worthwhile endeavors

Do we? Use it for more worthwhile endeavours? I doubt scrolling an online feed of endless bullshit would qualify as that, and most people seem to spend their left over time doing that instead. We're dopamine rush optimizers, not some kind of paragon who spends their time working for the good of society.

Now I'm not saying it makes any sense for us to go back to washing things by hand, but I am saying that automating chores and saving time is like heroin to us and that we'll pay every cent we have for it, as OP's original point was.

> People own cars to drive more than two blocks

Yeah but once we have the ability to drive anywhere it's easy to use it for all kinds of things that we really don't need it for, cause it's just so convenient, fuel prices be damned :)

> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

This sounds like approving bad/poor abstractions too prematurely and keep building on top of that.

What about the satisfaction that comes not with struggling but from the calmness of an elegant functional model that dynamically covers all the flows and all the edge cases you could (deep and slowly [1]) think about?

[1] maybe refining in different days, in the shower, after recovering breath in a hard set in a workout session, after a nap...