> Because hiding complexity doesn't make it go away). Try adopting [..] context managers (pooling, chunking, freeing in batches etc.), this can reduce the amount of boilerplate to a minimum

"don't hide complexity in small, single-purpose, composable containers, instead hide complexity in hulking behemoths which can consume months of refactorings & iterations" ?

That's not simplifying your code to be generic. That's adopting a particular framework & coding style. Which yes, you have to do in C, but you're doing that because of language issues. You're not saving yourself from "language cleverness"