Your cognitive dissonance is because in higher strata of first world society, indirection is an extraordinarily popular get-out-of-jail-free card. Only a single level of indirection sufficiently enables all sorts of financial manipulation. See Wells Fargo as just a simple example.

Simple C-style pointer indirection is increasingly disallowed in lower strata as this example illustrates. The higher strata are going to handles-level and greater layers of indirection in the meantime.