Not sure what the point of this rant is. C is an old language. I remember switching from Motorola assembler on my Amiga to ANSI C on my new PC and complaining how high-level it was. But it was so much easier and faster to write more complicated software with it. So it became popular and operating systems were written in it. Now we have many even higher level languages that abstract a lot of the real computing that is required for CPUs to work, and people complain every time they get exposed to the low-level stuff. Well, sorry, but on the very low level computers are actually quite complicated. Not everything can be abstracted and hidden from your eyes. As CPUs become more powerful and our systems have more RAM, we can be more wasteful with how we use these resources. So more and more of the low-level stuff can be hidden. But there will always be value in programming in C in ways that take full advantage of the hardware (especially for simple, battery powered devices).