Quite arguably, we do - such a driver would be a "compiler". Most compilers do some really wild things to reshape your code to take (some) advantage of new pr

Quite arguably, we do - such a driver would be a "compiler". Most compilers do some really wild things to reshape your code to take (some) advantage of new processor features. There's a huge amount of "brain offloading" that's deferred to the compiler guys, and in a ton of ways, that's the point of having a driver as well; they adapt generic commands like "write a file to disk" to work for you on any kind of disk; compilers adapt your C (or whatever) code to work on e.g. any of the current intel chips of the last N years (within which there are quite a few breaking incompatibilities; I've had code compiled for a really particular i7 CPU actually not work on a different one, because it was taking advantage of new instructions only available on that particular chip - when I reconfigured my compiler to hit a wider compatibility target, the issue went away. So yeah - there's a huge amount of knowledge "hidden away" there.