Yes but cognitive load is a real thing. Being free to not think about the proper format to log some generic info about the state of the program might seem like a small thing, but remember, that frees up your mind to hold other concerns. See well-trodden research that the human mind can hold roughly three to five meaningful items in working memory at once. When in the flow of programming, you probably have a complicated unconscious process of kicking things out of working memory and re-acquiring them by looking at the code in front of you. I think the author is correctly observing that they are getting the benefit of not having to evict something from their mental cache to remember how logging works for this particular project (especially egregious if you work on 10 codebases and they each use a different logger).