AVR has no protection and no segments. I mean really, it seems to be true that new generation of programmers have zero understanding of hardware, nothing personal.
Nothing personal taken. If I was something more than a hobbyist wrt to hardware, then I might.
I was having this conversation with someone the other day regarding GenAI. The expectations for understanding the lowest-level concerns have changed generationally. Today's hardware wizard might prize their old-school understanding of fundamentals but would probably be rubbish in 1948.