Abstraction levels in engineering are like octaves for vocalists. I think I know maybe 2-3 engineers with a range greater than 3 levels/octaves. Mine is not even 1 full level/octave 
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Sure, but the skill being transferred here is: “how to program at *any* level of abstraction”. See enough of these and variations of each and you’ve seen them all. Much how linguists study the language of language itself.
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So, in this sense, a master engineer’s “range” is actually infinite.
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