There are two types of engineering. Additive and subtractive. All software problems can be solved with either:

1. Some abstraction. 2. Replacing the existing "thing" with a new one that had more functionality.

Building layers of abstraction is typically safer and easier, but the abstractions aren't free. There's a really performance and completely tax to using the additive approach. Just take a look at the Win32 API. So many calls are slow AF and just reading a file off the disk in Windows requires 1000s of syscalls and confext switches- because of too much "safe" abstractions built over the years.

Compare this to Apple's engineering strategy, where they often deprecate and replace an APIs. This is obviously more abusive to the developers, and the users, but arguably better for the long term stability and performance of the system.