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.