Abstraction is necessary for managing complexity, but if you haven’t been rechecking the fit of your abstraction to your growing set of instances, then wouldn’t you want to at least consider the possibility that you’ve lost sight of the thing you were trying to manage?
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What are some examples? I agree there are many individual bad habits. But I can’t think of many collective ones.
A few that come to mind quickly: confusing different notions of priority (in what sense is category theory more fundamental than algorithm design?); taking rules too literally (related: confusing precision and rigor); being too eager to burn things down and start over.
