I love your work. Unrelated to this piece, do you know of any resource that allows you to zoom in on a modern-process-node chip, from 1X down to the transistor level?
Some ASIC designs are open source. That won't be down to the transistor level, but they are laid out at gate level. For example: https://tinytapeout.com/runs/tt02/
While the tool creates the chip by placing at the gate level, the designs themselves can be studied at the transistor level if you want. You can study the actual chip gds file or look up the gds for each standard cell individually.