Abiogenesis

The study of Abiogenesis doesn't limit itself to the terrestrial. However the subject of abiogenesis does have a bias towards explaining the origin of terrestrial life (whether that origin is extraterrestrial or not). There is no evidence that life that is here originated with some pre-Bang life. Maybe it did - but first we must explain its appearance on earth, how that came about...depending on the answer, depends on whether we continue exploring back to the depth of time and beyond.

We don't know yet - that's why we research Certainly there is nothing lacking in the fundamentals, but there are certainly principles out there waiting to be discovered. The principle of early cell formation for example.

The earth is bio friendly, but it is not abiogenesis friendly right now. It is swarming with life, and any primitive life will be almost certainly less fit than the millions of highly evolved bacteria that will undoubtedly be all over the place in those woods. Organic matter is food for bacteria, and primitive life - even where it chemically possible to form in our current environment - has a massive biological barrier preventing its realization.

The dog ate my homework is an excuse, most usually a lie. Life didn't eat our evidence, since we do not think that there is any evidence for life to eat. Prebiotic chemicals don't have the opportunity to chemically self organize and develop hereditary traits - since those chemicals will be being used for other things by existing and prevalent life. Abiogenesis would be very unlikely to occur on present day earth because present day life basically prohibits it. However, in early biotic times, life would not eat itself. Certainly Life A will eat Life B, but life B would reproduce and the offspring will eat more Life As. There would be a Darwinian struggle, you might say.

It probably depends on your preferred model. In the Lipid World model, they talk about cell membrane like formations developing. Some models are more 'naked' than this.

I didn't say prebiotic chemicals didn't do the biological trick. I said prebiotic chemicals can't do the biological trick in the present due to the existing biota.

I disagree. A pristine abiotic world have a lot more time to develop life. The organic matter in that pond is decaying (ie being eaten by the smorgasbord) comparably quickly. Abiotic earth had organic chemicals, but without the bacterial decay to worry about and with a whole lot of time and space. The pond has little of either.