(Good) Abstraction is there to hide complexity. I don't think it's controversial to say that software has become extremely complex. You need to support more spoken languages, more backends, more complex devices, etc.

The most complex thing to support is peoples' resumes. If carpenters were incentivized like software devs are, we'd quickly start seeing multi-story garden sheds in reinforced concrete because every carpenters dream job at Bunkers Inc. pays 10x more.