In my opinion, reflections in water are the most common type of photography with an abstract and graphic plot. Reflection can be captured as a fact or with a piece of reality. When a part of the actual landscape or subject is present in the picture, the abstract factor is greatly reduced.
If the reflection is captured as a fact, that is, only the reflected part of the object or landscape is captured without a real view, then the frame automatically becomes graphic and abstract.
And all this is due to the fact that reflections in 90% of cases are removed through the surface of water, which is almost never perfectly smooth and thus distorts reality.
An exception may be a small puddle, where there may not be any ripples on the water at all, and then the reflection turns out to be mirror-like.
But if you shoot such a reflection without a mirrored piece of reality, then the meaning is lost - it turns out that you will photograph an ordinary view of reality, only ideally reflected through the surface of the water.
Therefore, it is better to shoot reflection as a fact only with distortion. And the ideal mirror image is always shot with a part of reality.