I mean, that's pretty much how I program things. I start new web apps with an MVC framework that auto-generates new pages. When I want to do something, I try to use someone else's code as much as possible. If I'm doing a simple, well contained task, someone else has already thought of it and made a library for it. If I need to send an email, I just do something like calling _emailSender.SendEmail(message). Easy peasy.

But processing data is complicated and nothing can completely abstract it away.