Lots of abstractions have an escape hatch down to the lower level, you can put assembly in your C code, most ORMs have some way to just run a query, etc.

I think the question I have is, what benefit does this provide? Let's say we could wave a magic wand and you can operate at any layer of abstraction. Is this beneficial in some way? The article is about leaky abstractions and states

> One reason the law of leaky abstractions is problematic is that it means that abstractions do not really simplify our lives as much as they were meant to.

I think I'm just struggling to understand how this would help with that.