[haswell]

Realistically, one can achieve quite a lot without needing to ever think about binary, and today’s languages/frameworks explicitly enable this.

I’m not arguing that someone shouldn’t eventually teach themselves more fundamentals as they mature their skillset, but most modern languages are so many abstractions above binary that it’s more of a distraction while learning about the basics of code in the context of real world use cases.

Understanding assembly on some level is in a similar category.

I think of this more as an avenue for specialization. One need not learn these things to get started, but they may very well need these things if they want to continue their journey past a certain point.