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It hurts to be called exceptionally small XD

But also... everyone interacts with hardware whenever they use a a computer.

I think our difference of opinion has to do with abstraction layers here. Just so you know where I'm coming from, I work on web apps in java, python, and js, C++ desktop applications, and I operate a mars rover using various domain specific languages. Before switching to engineering I was a scientist and had to deal with data collection in the lab and field from all sorts of instrumentation which often required understanding low-level protocols and the movement of bits and bytes.

It's hard for me to imagine the world you're describing... sounds like it's full of script kiddies.