To my opinion a lot of photographs get better with diminished detail, call it abstraction if you like. The art of reduction is very interesting. Try for yourself: look for images that you like where reduction or abstraction is an essential part of the image. And then imagine how they would have looked without it. No distraction, no irrelevant details, no deviation, straight ahead. The only problem is the fact that the art of reduction has a steep learning curve ...........
You can reduce information by cropping to the essential, reduce detail by postprocessing, play with light and dark, unsharpness etcetera.
Mondriaan is my inspiration, he finally became a master of abstraction, it took a lifetime.