Yeah, I'm all up for writing everything in machine language using punch cards. Anything else is clearly too much abstraction and obviously a sign of bad engineers.

LOL, all of the frameworks mentioned, even express are pretty light abstractions... that said, I feel angular, as an example goes TOO far.. way too far. These days, I hesitate to even use lodash, let alone jquery or larger bits. Though I'll still bring in moment if I have to deal with a lot of date/time logic and formatting (hate the size of it though).