[intelVISA]

Abstraction is fine, it allows you to work faster, or easier. Reliance that becomes dependency is the problem - when abstraction supersedes fundamentals you're no longer able to reason about the leaks and they become blindspots.

Don't confuse low-level tedium with CS basics, if you're arguing that knowing how computers work is not relevant to working as a SWE then sure, but why would a company want a software dev that doesn't seem to know software? Usually your irreplaceable value as a developer is knowing and mitigating the leaks so they don't wind up threatening the business.

This is where the industry most suffers from not having a standardized-ish hierarchy, you're right that most shops don't need a trauma surgeon on-call for treating headaches but there's still many medical options before resorting to random grifter who simply "watched some Grey's Anatomy" as "medschool was a barrier for providing value to customers".