That is an excellent way of putting it. Abstractions makes you think you’ve got a handle on things, but when they break, now you have two problems – neither of which you’re probably equipped to solve.
When I was doing Econometrics at Uni, the lecturer wouldn't let us use the functions in the software that did the mathematics for us. He made us learn using Spreadsheets and doing the calculations manually, _then_ he let us use the automated functionality once we understood it.
