True that there is still need for those kind of programming techniques and people to maintain them.
But the fact is that such knowledge is quite a specialism and often too complicated for most.
And if it is done right, abstraction will help people making less mistakes and achieve results with less work.
I've been programming in C++ a lot, but still find it a real burden sometimes to see how much effort it takes to do a simple task.
Working with ESPeasy makes me appreciate the -sometimes bloated- libraries available at my daytime job
and still allow me to get to the bottom of detailed bit-banging and old fashioned memory management.
