> There's almost an expectation that powerful tooling should be dumbed down.
Which is the problem here. The abstraction in question tries to dumb things down, but doesn't succeed in dumbing things down enough. As a consequence you get their weird middle ground where you can't access the gritty details an experienced programmer would want, but it doesn't hide the gritty details from the inexperienced programmer, ultimately serving no one. As usual, you can make it work, but it is a poor abstraction.
Which is the problem here. The abstraction in question tries to dumb things down, but doesn't succeed in dumbing things down enough. As a consequence you get their weird middle ground where you can't access the gritty details an experienced programmer would want, but it doesn't hide the gritty details from the inexperienced programmer, ultimately serving no one. As usual, you can make it work, but it is a poor abstraction.