That's more like saying I expect to write highly performant software without knowing about CPU caches or the O(n) of my algorithms. These are tools meant to sc

That's more like saying I expect to write highly performant software without knowing about CPU caches or the O(n) of my algorithms. These are tools meant to scale out designs that you already have a good understanding of. Hardware is implicitly bottom up because you're dealing with physics at the bottom. Very few pieces of hardware are lenient to a single cycle of latency much less 10's of milliseconds.