Yup. Paradoxically I find it much easier to understand something when I know the layer inmediately below it. Middle layers of software stacks are not implement

Yup. Paradoxically I find it much easier to understand something when I know the layer inmediately below it. Middle layers of software stacks are not implemented in a way that makes sense in isolation. There is always a reason why something is done a certain way and that reason usually comes from a lower layer. For people who love to ask “why”, being forced to understand a single layer of a software stack is mental torture. Those who proclaim something is good because “you don’t have to think about x,y,z” are missing the point. Yes in the near term maybe, but long term its not the best solution.