I did plenty of the usual undergrad bitwise stuff in school and recently dove back into K&R C to refresh myself, so in a lot of ways I agree. But how is it

I did plenty of the usual undergrad bitwise stuff in school and recently dove back into K&R C to refresh myself, so in a lot of ways I agree. But how is it possible to not wonder about how these magical boxes actually represent the software we write in memory? I mean, we all draw the line somewhere. Somewhere, there's a chip designer wondering how you have spent so long in this industry without bothering to get familiar with chip lithography techniques and such.