The real point is establish a common language to talk about the domain. This is enormously powerful. Have you ever worked with people who don't speak your language? Everything takes 3x as long as ideas aren't communicated properly and things get lost in translation.
It's the same with code. If your code is all written in the language of the computer then you'll be translating business language into computer language. This takes longer and it's more error prone. The business people can't check your work because they don't know how to code and the coders can't check because they don't know the business.
The point of building abstractions is it empowers you to write code in a language that is much closer to the language of the domain experts. DDD is one take but the basic idea goes all the way back to things like SICP.