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Not saying it's surprising. My day job is doing exactly this, not in any FAANG.

Working on a platform that hides so many low-level details is a challenge, and the fact people have to go to such length to get access to it is noteworthy. 'maxas' was noteworthy and unneeded on many (most ?) other platforms.

Not saying Intelstuff or armstuff is 'easier' but at least you get access and are tooled to work on the actual low-level asm.

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> and the fact people have to go to such length to get access to it is noteworthy

I'll repeat myself: no it's not. There's nothing noteworthy about it at all. In fact I literally cannot fathom why anyone ever expects or expected otherwise. Is it because the oft-repeated notion of "abstraction"? I guess I must be the sole programmer that has always known/understood, even from the first intro class, that abstractions are just assumptions and when those assumptions don't hold I will need to remove the abstraction.

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