I think the important thing to understand about complex software is that
it must be humanly comprehensible.

Once abstractions levels become too grand (via human or automation
efforts), no human will put effort into understanding how the pieces fit
together, or put further effort into mutating the software to do some
new future thing.

So in this conversation, 10,000 extra chunks of code -- we have a choice
between automation which will evict the human interest, or humans who
won't accept automation that will evict their future interest.

One additional point.  This project has always been founded on keeping
patches minimal, explainable, etc.  That's 10,000 patches which will need
to be submitted in very small bundles, and trying to keep the attention
of reviewers.

Oh, review isn't neccessary?  Amazing.  How did we ever get to this point.