I guess what I have run into is a lot of code that is agressively, needlessly abstracted for a future that will likely never come. Abstractions that perhaps would be worth it to save hundreds of copies or permutations, while I'm looking at one.

I'm all for not repeating myself, but there is a different between "usually avoid" and "never"

Copying and pasting in many situations would seem a breeze compared to the nest of abstractions required to avoid it.

Seeing the future? Picking the right macro strategy, programming language, database, etc ahead of time, sure, an experienced developer can usually do that. But correctly predicting the boundaries of systems, libraries, APIs—and guessing who will maintain which system and figuring out dependencies—that never goes according to plan. So in my experience YAGNI and reducing coupling are more important principles than sharing code.

I suppose it depends on your problem space.

If I'm writing an API to move a robot, my problem space is fairly bounded, and I know that someday I will want force control at some end effector. I know that there's a 6 axis robot I've been eyeing, etc.

Maybe I'm being downvoted by web devs?