What has happened is that "we" have divorced software from hardware by adding an increasing number of abstractions. There is a increasing number of people that

What has happened is that "we" have divorced software from hardware by adding an increasing number of abstractions. There is a increasing number of people that never had to deal with boot sectors or config files to get a computer up and running, they just hit a button and a few seconds later it lights up in massive colors and sounds. And the only languages they know are web related languages, because that was the thing to know when they got interested in computers. And as the saying goes: When all you have is a hammer, all problems looks like nails.