The bigger problem often is...
We don't often understand what we are building most of the time.
Software is a communication tool most of the time. You are communicating between machine and user or user to machine to network of data and so on.
Most of the code is really a translation from input to some kind of command or process and outputting the result.
The more layers you add to that, the further you are from the truth and the more confusing the world truly is. For all the patterns, abstractions, and so on that we lean on, we miss out on the most important one...
input -> processing -> output