If you're an embedded developer, that's usually a matter of your boss or a customer deciding it for you.

Bah, in my days we wrote a dozen of drivers per day and that's only because we had to fight the network admins in hand to hand combat during the afternoon....

If it’s very difficult for developers to do a good job, the likelihood you encounter bugs as a user increases.

Even if you don’t write drivers, doesn’t mean you can’t suffer from difficult to implement standards.