[Knork-and-Fife]

> is it possible to create a bug because of something that's currently hidden from you?

Isn't this always the case?

I don't think there is a "full view" like you describe. Even if you're writing raw assembly, you're still working on top of the abstractions provided by the instruction set. There is no such thing as a full view where you can see every detail of everything that is going to happen.

I think the solution to this problem is tests and doing your due diligence in understanding what you're doing.

Having more control over what abstractions you're seeing should help with the understanding part, which should in turn reduce bugs resulting from lack of understanding.

Edit: related thought: it's about improving the tooling. Which I suppose is another thing for someone to learn and possibly misuse. But I don't think it's correct to say that firefighters shouldn't carry axes because they could accidentally kill someone with them.