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There's nothing 1960s about it, that's just not well reasoned. These computation constructs/tools just don't currently have better abstractions while maintaining the desired computational performance.

It's a strange intersection of needs where one wants or needs something like CUDA, but doesn't care to ensure their computation is actually running optimally. If you don't want to be bothered with control and granularity, why are you trying to write high performance CUDA code in the first place?

Would you mind elaborating as to what your hobby project was?