To be optimistic, we could also view this as a great success: enough abstractions have been built that cloud people can get along just fine even if their hardware knowledge barely outstrips their knowledge of how npn transistors work.<p>(Bob Widlar lamenting the then-contemporary decline of analogue knowledge among EE's: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fpz89ztucobm41.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fp...</a> )