A lot of things are starting to work like operating systems for performance and/or security reasons. We might need to eliminate the distinction in our thinking

A lot of things are starting to work like operating systems for performance and/or security reasons. We might need to eliminate the distinction in our thinking to get better results on new systems. Quite a few programmers and researchers already have, making things like you describe. Others are building from hardware up to try to make their implementations more 1-to-1 with how hardware works.