There are many other cases where modern hardware provides opaque high-level abstractions to software, trying to predict the workload at its own under the hood,

There are many other cases where modern hardware provides opaque high-level abstractions to software, trying to predict the workload at its own under the hood, instead of letting the user control it. CPUs largely work like that with branch prediction for ages, and the crazy situation where they use neural networks to do that doesn't seem to bother anyone.