I don't accept your non-acceptance of assembly as a valid analogy except I'll actually tell you the reason why - you didn't give any reasoning whatsoever. This

I don't accept your non-acceptance of assembly as a valid analogy except I'll actually tell you the reason why - you didn't give any reasoning whatsoever. This is a perfectly valid analogy. Visible characters in a strings are to Unicode code points as high-level functions in high-level code are to assembly commands. Furthermore, even without using an analogy I'm quite comfortable in saying, again, that I want Strings sugarcoated because 99.9% of the time I don't give a fuck about some bullshit ivory tower corrected view of things that makes the common scenario more difficult than it needs to be.