> I’m convinced there’s a contingent of devs who don’t like/grok abstraction

I am one of them. I don't like Go, though. Enums and tagged unions aren't abstractions but fundamental features in my book. It's pretty transparent how they look in memory and there's nothing hidden about them.

What does confuse me are things like macros or annotations that magically insert something and make the code incomprehensible. I'm sure it's convenient to use, but it makes my brain try to manually translate it to simple instructions like a foreign language.

In my free time I like using Rust without custom traits (except a few iterators), that's close to the sweet spot for me.