Have you ever noticed that everyone who drives faster than you is a maniac, and everyone who drives slower than you is a moron? I think code abstraction fits a similar pattern.
Not that code is this serious at all. Idk.
If they drive slower then yeah they're morons and I need to pass them as soon as humanly possible.
In both cases they become non-factors and I can drive in peace. The fast disappear into the horizon and the slow get left behind. This plays out until I am alone in the road and no longer need to consider the actions of other humans behind the wheel. That is when peace is achieved. Sadly it does not last long.
I mean they're probably tailgating and aggressively changing lanes and don't have any awareness of the dangers of differential velocity between lanes of traffic. I don't think you really need to learn those 'tricks'.
You can still freely let them go and they can give any bored cops ahead of you something to do though.
There is a place and time for everything. You can drive as fast as you can in a Formula 1 race, but when you're around pedestrians you gotta slow down.
Similarly, complex abstractions can often be fast to write but difficult to maintain. Similar to a lack of them.
But sure, it all has a time and place. Except the attitude of dismissing or never discussing this topic. That's the only thing that is "wrong" here.
The gist of it was: "This specific thing makes my job difficult, please be mindful of people like me" is just personal experience.
The comment even contains the word "please" in it. And they even acknowledge that it solves other problems.
But it's a bit shitty to dismiss someone's personal experience and plea by mocking with exaggerated quotes from a comedian, just because you happen to disagree with them.
They seem to be saying that this inevitably happens and to never use the abstraction. They may have inserted a "please" in there to try to make it superficially appear softer, but they aren't actually being very nuanced at all.
Attribution would be appropriate!
You got the quote close enough for a plagiarism complaint. :)