I remember playing in the low moby. I think our generation benefited a bit in our understanding because we had to deal with "bad" tech. Finicky, difficult to use, you had to understand it because it made no effort to understand you. Me playing with a presario 486 back in the 90s and all of our computers after that seems to have led to a certain knack that I offhandedly refer to as "speaking Machine". You just develop an understanding of what a computer is likely trying to do, what individual steps it would need to complete in order to do that and which one of those steps fucked up based on what it did instead of what it was trying to do. As tech got better the level of understanding required to use it decreased. This is good overall, but it's gonna mean fewer low level hackers and that even people who build things on computers don't fundamentally understand how they do what they do because it's all abstracted away. I'm a java coder now but I'm also the only coder I know that has ever worked in assembly. Outside specialized embedded hardware applications, why would you bother?